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hey, I'm leerob 👋. I'm a frontend developer, optimist, and community builder. I currently work as the VP of Product at Vercel, where I help teach the Next.js community, an open-source web framework built with React.
Jul 19, 2021 · I wanted to write, record, stream, post, tweet, and grow a community. I wanted to help others learn and progress in their careers as developers. After teaching over 100,000 developers from around the world with courses and tutorials, I joined the team at Vercel and now lead Developer Relations.
Oct 28, 2023 · But frameworks must evolve over time based on community feedback, how the ecosystem moves, and new functionality available in the web platform. That's why Next.js 12, released in 2021, introduced Middleware, which is built on the Web Request, Response, and fetch.
Mar 7, 2023 · For startups, having product-market fit means you're building the right product for the right people. For DevRel, having community-messaging fit means you're using the right words to describe the product for that community.
On Product Engineers. Lee Robinson. The divide between frontend and backend engineers is increasingly less useful: Frontend developers are no longer just writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's now common to see a frontend-focused developer build an entire web application from scratch.
May 30, 2022 · Heroku made it easy for any developer to build and run applications in the cloud without managing their own infrastructure. Now 15 years later, it continues to inspire the next generation of developers.
Jan 29, 2023 · How Vercel Funds Next.js. Vercel makes money from two types of customers: pay-as-you-go (swipe your credit card) and enterprise customers. Many of these customers use Next.js, the software Vercel funds maintenance and development for. Next.js is free because of these paying customers.
Lee Robinson. Here's what I believe creates a great Developer Experience (DX): Frameworks and Libraries. Make onboarding fast: You should be able to try a new tool in one command. For example, npx create-next-app or brew install bat. Then, should it quick to iterate and see the value of the tool, with fast feedback loops to the developer.
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Lee Robinson. Here's where I'm currently most productive: 1. Framework (Next.js and React) I’ve been working with Next.js since 2018 (and React since 2015) so I'm most productive here. I start all my projects with TypeScript. For data fetching, I use newer React patterns: Majority: Server Components
