Cathy Lai

React/React Native Developer, PHP, MySQL, Java, Python, Node.js

Auckland, New Zealand Joined on Aug 6, 2022

Cathy Lai

Oct 31

Building a Full-Stack E-Commerce Site with Lovable: From Zero to Production

#fullstack #beginners #webdev #tutorial

6 min read

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Cathy Lai

Oct 29

Self-paced Learning End-to-End Testing with Claude AI

#testing #javascript #ai #beginners

4 min read

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Oct 28

React Native Navigation: Why useEffect Doesn’t Run When You Go Back

#reactnative #mobile

3 min read

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Oct 21

Understanding Rate Limiting — Keeping APIs Fair, Fast, and Friendly

#security #architecture #api #performance

4 min read

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Oct 20

Run an iOS app on your MacBook in 1 hour

#reactnative #beginners #ios #tutorial

2 min read

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Oct 17

Getting Started with Tamagui: A Complete Guide to Modern React Native Styling

#reactnative #design #mobile #tutorial

2 min read

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Oct 17

How I Ship My Apps while having a full time job

#sideprojects #productivity #mobile #chatgpt

1 min read

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Oct 16

Beyond REST: Microservices, Resilience, and Real-World Teamwork

#api #architecture #microservices

3 min read

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Oct 16

Next-Level REST Concepts: Idempotency, Caching, and Beyond

#api #architecture #backend

3 min read

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Oct 15

RESTful Services 101 — A Practical Guide for Frontend and Backend Developers

#javascript #php #architecture #api

3 min read

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Oct 15

Why Every Microservice Should Have Its Own Database

#architecture #database #microservices

3 min read

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Oct 13

How to Build TextInput with AsyncStorage in React Native

#reactnative #javascript #tutorial #beginners

3 min read

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Oct 12

How to Set Up Reactotron to Debug AsyncStorage in React Native

#reactnative #tutorial #productivity #tooling

3 min read

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Oct 12

Choosing the Right Storage Solution

#reactnative #mmkv #sqlite #mobile

4 min read

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Oct 11

Managing Global Settings in React Native: A Clean Context API Approach

#react #reactnative #typescript #tutorial

5 min read

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Oct 11

How to Set Up NativeWind (Tailwind CSS) in Your Expo React Native App

#reactnative #tailwindcss #tutorial

4 min read

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Oct 10

Uploading Photos from Your React Native App to Cloudinary (with Expo)

#reactnative #cloud #javascript #tutorial

3 min read

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Oct 9

React Explained: Mount vs Render (and Why It Matters in React Native)

#beginners #react #reactnative

2 min read

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Oct 9

Adding Google Maps in React Native page

#google #reactnative #typescript #tutorial

3 min read

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Oct 8

Jest Cheatsheets

#testing #javascript #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

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Oct 8

Getting Started with Jest

#beginners #testing #javascript #tutorial

2 min read

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Oct 6

Create a React Native Project (bun + Expo development built)

#reactnative #javascript #tutorial #tooling

2 min read

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Oct 4

Release workflow for sole developer

#devops #productivity #reactnative

3 min read

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Oct 4

How to sync iOS build numbers (Expo + EAS + App Store Connect)

#reactnative #tutorial #ios #devops

3 min read

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Oct 3

Supabase config in your Expo project - the proper way

#supabase #reactnative #programming #mobile

2 min read

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Sep 21

useMemo and useCallback Explained

1 min read

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Sep 21

useEffect() detail explanation

#javascript #react #tutorial

2 min read

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Sep 19

Common Stale Closure Bugs in React

#javascript #react #tutorial

3 min read

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Sep 18

Closures

#beginners #javascript #programming

2 min read

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Sep 18

Factory Functions in useMemo()

3 min read

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Sep 4

Run Your Expo App on a Physical Phone (with a Development Build) — Expo 53 + Expo Router

4 min read

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Aug 28

Tap a City Generate an Image (Next.js API + Expo)

3 min read

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Aug 28

Image Generation with OpenAI (Step‑by‑Step Tutorial)

1 min read

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Aug 25

Image Generation with OpenAI (Step‑by‑Step Tutorial)

3 min read

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