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Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
6h ago
Your useEffect Data Fetch Might Show Stale Data If a User Navigates Quickly
This is a genuinely common race condition, and it's specifically the kind that only shows up under...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
1d ago
Forgetting to Disable Draft Mode in Next.js Can Leave Unpublished Content Visible Longer Than You Think
I covered enabling draft mode as part of the Sanity CMS setup in an earlier post, letting an editor...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
2d ago
Binding Extra Arguments to a Server Action? The Order Matters More Than You'd Think
This is a small, easy detail to get backwards, and getting it backwards doesn't throw a clear error,...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
3d ago
Why Your Next.js Modal Route Works Perfectly Until Someone Refreshes the Page
This one isn't really a bug, it's a genuinely common point of confusion about a feature working...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
4d ago
That bcrypt.hash(password, 10) You Copy-Pasted Might Not Be as Secure as You Think
Almost every auth tutorial, including some of my own examples in earlier posts, uses...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
5d ago
Optional Chaining Is Probably Hiding Real Bugs in Your Next.js App
Optional chaining is genuinely useful for values that are legitimately, expectedly sometimes absent....
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
6d ago
Adding priority to Every Image in Next.js Can Actually Make Your Site Slower
This is a genuinely counterintuitive one, since the natural instinct when trying to speed up image...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🔧 Backend Engineering
1w ago
generateMetadata and Your Page Component Are Probably Querying the Same Data Twice
I wrote earlier about cache() fixing redundant database queries when multiple components in a tree...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
1w ago
Setting dynamicParams to false Can Make Brand New Content 404 Until Your Next Deploy
This one's a genuinely reasonable setting that causes a genuinely confusing symptom, a brand new...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
3w ago
Stop Using Array Index as a React Key. The Bug You Create Might Not Be Where You Think.
Here's a React bug that's incredibly easy to write because the code looks completely reasonable. You...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🔧 Backend Engineering
3w ago
Your MongoDB Login Query Might Be Vulnerable to a One-Line Bypass
Most developers coming from a SQL background know to worry about SQL injection instinctively, string...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
3w ago
Calling redirect() Inside a Suspense Boundary Doesn't Undo What Already Streamed to the Browser
Streaming is one of the genuinely great things about the App Router, the browser can start receiving...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🔧 Backend Engineering
3w ago
unstable_cache Can Silently Serve One User's Data to a Completely Different User
I wrote about how force-caching a user-specific fetch can leak data across users. There's a second,...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🔧 Backend Engineering
4w ago
revalidatePath Might Not Be Invalidating What You Think It Is
If you've ever called revalidatePath after a mutation, watched the data still show up stale on the...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🔧 Backend Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Your "Validated" Form Checkbox Might Always Be True, Even When It's Unchecked
Quick check, if you have any Server Action handling a checkbox, a "subscribe to newsletter," an "I...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
1mo ago
One Buried cookies() Call Can Silently Kill Static Rendering for Your Entire Page
Here's a question worth actually checking on your own app: is that marketing page you assume is...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
1mo ago
Your Next.js App Might Be Leaking Secrets Right Now. Check Your Client Bundle.
Your app can be perfectly functional, beautifully designed, deployed on Vercel, passing every...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
1mo ago
Next.js Server Actions Have Built-In CSRF Protection. Your API Routes Probably Don't.
I wrote a post a while back about Server Actions being public, directly callable endpoints regardless...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
1mo ago
Check Your Next.js Client Bundle Right Now. Your API Keys Might Already Be There.
This one takes about ninety seconds to check on your own project, and I'd genuinely encourage you to...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
1mo ago
Your Next.js Middleware Might Be Running More Often Than You Think, Thanks to Prefetching
Here's a question worth actually testing on your own app: if a user never clicks a link, just scrolls...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture
1mo ago
Your Next.js Page Might Be Caching One User's Data and Serving It to Everyone Else
This is the scariest bug class I've run into in Next.js, not because it's exotic, but because it's...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
1mo ago
I've Reviewed a Dozen Next.js Stripe Integrations. Almost None Handle This Race Condition.
Quick fact that surprises a lot of developers the first time they hear it: Stripe does not guarantee...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🔧 Backend Engineering
1mo ago
Next.js Automatically Dedupes fetch() Calls. Your MongoDB Queries Don't Get That for Free.
Here's something that trips up almost everyone moving from a fetch-based API to a direct MongoDB...
Dev.to · Anas Sheikh
🌐 Frontend Engineering
1mo ago
Your Next.js Server Actions Are Public API Endpoints. Most Developers Don't Realize This.
Quick question. If you have a Server Action that deletes a user's account, called from a single...
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