Rico Kahler
I build consumer-facing apps and websites as well as developer-facing tools. I specialize in the tooling + React space of the frontend and also work with serverless architectures using platforms like Vercel and frameworks like Serverless.
Core web vitals vs React.memo
April 13, 2022
'Performance' is a loaded word in the frontend/React world and hard to know exactly what people mean. This article explains the difference between web performance and re-render performance.
Reverting back to a document-based web with PDFs
January 18, 2022
On Sunday, January 16th, I made wordlepdf.com, a remake of Wordle… expect it uses PDFs.
A critical look at React Hooks
January 12, 2022
Here's my thoughts on the good as well as the bad of React Hooks
React Conf 2021
January 4, 2022
I watched all of React Conf 2021. Here's everything you should know.
Did React become a framework?
December 23, 2021
React has been focusing more and more on server-related features prompting familiar the question: Is React a framework or a library?