Blog | Andrej Gajdos | Freelance Full Stack Web App Developer

How to Build an MVP (Minimum Viable Product): The Definitive Guide

August 23, 2022
by Andrej Gajdos

This is the most comprehensive guide on how to build an MVP (Minimal Viable Product). In this in-depth blog post you will learn everything about tools for building MVP, from what you need to know before you start building MVP to building landing page for MVP to technologies which help you to streamline the development process.

Product Strategy

The Difference Between an Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and a Prototype: The Strategy Closest to Product Market Fit

June 23, 2020
by Andrej Gajdos

Digital transformation is about a way of approaching business problems and finding solutions for them. Introducing a new software product means changing existing interactions, workflows, and processes. It’s important to ensure the new software product is meeting all expectations, along its journey.

Web development

30 Powerful Chrome Extensions for Freelance Web Developers

June 23, 2020
by Andrej Gajdos

As a freelance web developer, you probably find yourself spending a lot of time in Chrome working. You work in a fast-moving industry and keeping on top of things can be challenging.

React.js

Orchestrating animations with Framer Motion in React.js [Step By Step Tutorial with Examples]

June 23, 2020
by Andrej Gajdos

Framer Motion is an open-source motion library, which drives Framer X’s animations and gesture capabilities in React.js projects. If you are familiar with Popmotion, Framer Motion is the successor to the popular Pose animation library. Both libraries provide declarative API, which makes creating and orchestrating animations in React.js projects easy to implement.

Freelance

Freelance React Developer’s Checklist [Infographics and Free Email Template]

November 22, 2020
by Andrej Gajdos

Whether you are a freelance React developer or you do another kind of freelance work on short term projects, you can recognize similar patterns in your workflow. I found similar patterns in process of building React.js projects. In almost every project, I need to ask for clarification or similar questions in regards to graphic design.

Node.js

How to Create a Link Preview: The Definite Guide [Implementation and Demo Included]

November 14, 2023
by Andrej Gajdos

When you add a link in chat message or share it on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, you can see a small visual preview and brief description of the link. The main benefit of link previews is that users have some expectations of what they’re going to get before they open the link.

Freelance

How to Hire a Freelance Front End Developer

August 28, 2021
by Andrej Gajdos

A freelance front end developer needs to have a wide array of skills and experience to deliver the desired outcome. As a freelancer, I have been developing front-ends for clients all around the world in many different industries. A lot of people asked me:

Web development

How to Create a Custom Select Dropdown using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

September 13, 2021
by Andrej Gajdos

A post on how to create a custom select dropdown using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Should you build it from scratch or use a third-party library?

Creating custom select dropdown component is one of the most common requirements in web development. Select dropdown allows the user to choose one value from a predefined list. Maybe you are wondering:

Freelance

The Toolkit of a Freelance Full Stack Web Developer

September 12, 2023
by Andrej Gajdos

I am a freelance full stack web developer and I want to share with you which tools help me to build optimized web applications and custom websites.

Becoming a freelance full stack web developer requires a lot of work and love of learning. At first sight it might be overwhelming to understand what you need to know and learn to make an entire web application on your own. Over the years I’ve built a lot of web applications and custom websites as a full stack web developer. Regardless of what I am building, I always try to choose tools best suited for the project.

JavaScript

Authenticating Users in SPA using Node, Passport, React and Redux

June 23, 2020
by Andrej Gajdos

Implementing user authentication can be a difficult task, because we can use various libraries and authentication strategies. There are a lot of tutorials on this topic, but often times they miss fundamental information or don’t reflect set up of our project. In this blog post, I don’t attempt to write an universal tutorial for user authentication. However, I will point out some parts in authentication flow I didn’t find in other tutorials.