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How to Build a Custom PDF Text Extractor with Node.js and TypeScript

Extracting text from PDFs sounds simple until you try to do it. And it can be even more challenging for JavaScript developers, with various libraries to...

Chidera Humphrey - freecodecamp

The Modern React Data Fetching Handbook: Suspense, use(), and ErrorBoundary Explained

Most React developers don’t break the data fetching process all at once. It usually degrades gradually, slowly. Traditionally, you may have used a useEffect...

Tapas Adhikary - freecodecamp

Build a Production-Ready Pipeline with Docker, CI/CD & Hostinger

Learn to take a full-stack React, Go, and MongoDB application from local development to a fully containerized production environment. We just posted a full...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Test React Applications with Vitest

Testing is one of those things that every developer knows they should do, but many put off until problems start appearing in production. If you’re building...

Aiyedogbon Abraham - freecodecamp

UX

Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability

Autonomy is an output of a technical system. Trustworthiness is an output of a design process. Here are concrete design patterns, operational frameworks, and organizational...

Victor Yocco - smashingmagazine

Security

Learn Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking using Kali Linux

To protect your applications against threats, it’s helpful to understand the methods that attackers can use against you. We just posted a course on the...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

Other

Understanding Escape Analysis in Go – Explained with Example Code

In most languages, the stack and heap are two ways a program stores data in memory, managed by the language runtime. Each is optimized for different use...

Eti Ijeoma - freecodecamp

How to Build a Real-Time Public Speaking and Presentation Coach

Nowadays, being able to present an idea, project, or achievement is a must-have skill. The ability to showcase and talk about your work can determine whether...

Timothy Olanrewaju - freecodecamp

Top Heroku Alternatives for Deployment in 2026

For more than a decade, Heroku defined what “developer-friendly deployment” meant. Push code, forget servers, and focus on shipping features. That promise...

Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp

How to Build AI Agents That Remember User Preferences (Without Breaking Context)

Why Personalization Breaks Most AI Agents Personalization is one of the most requested features in AI-powered applications. Users expect an agent to remember...

Nataraj Sundar - freecodecamp

Prepare for the Kubernetes Administrator Certification and Pass [2026 update]

We just posted a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel to help prepare you for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Certification. This course is...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp