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Development

How to Build a Secure Authentication System with JWT and Refresh Tokens

Every app that handles user accounts needs a way to confirm who’s who. That’s what authentication is for, making sure the person using an app is the person...

Joan Ayebola - freecodecamp

How Closures Work in JavaScript: A Handbook for Developers

If you're learning JavaScript, you've probably heard the term "closure" at some point. In many developers' experience, just hearing this word can trigger...

Sumit Saha - freecodecamp

How to Simplify Your React Components with Derived State

React simplifies building user interfaces with hooks like useState for managing dynamic values. But it's common to overuse useState. This often leads to...

Olaleye Blessing - freecodecamp

UX

Designing For Stress And Emergency

Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20%...

Vitaly Friedman - smashingmagazine

Design

Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)

We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s insights and advice are so...

Ari Stiles - smashingmagazine

Other

freeCodeCamp's Top Open Source Contributors of 2025

2025 has been a super productive year for the global freeCodeCamp community. As we start our 12th year as a community, we’re firing on all cylinders, pushing...

Quincy Larson - freecodecamp

Learn CSS Flexbox for Beginners [Free 2-hour course]

Flexbox is a powerful CSS feature that lets you build user interfaces that fit any screen size. freeCodeCamp just published a Flexbox for beginners course...

Quincy Larson - freecodecamp

How to Deploy Your Own Cockroach DB Instance on Kubernetes [Full Book for Devs]

Developers are smart, wonderful people, and they’re some of the most logical thinkers you’ll ever meet. But we’re pretty terrible at naming things 😂 Like,...

Prince Onukwili - freecodecamp

How to Use Vibe Coding Effectively as a Dev

It may seem like everyone is a vibe coder these days, and prompting seemed like it would become the new coding. But is this AI-generated code really...

Ankur Tyagi - freecodecamp