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Comparison of React libraries with Tailwind CSS: Prime React, Next UI and Flowbite

MarsBased compares three popular React + Tailwind CSS libraries — Prime React, Next UI, and Flowbite — to help you pick the right one for your next project.

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Why we've added TailwindCSS to our tech stack

MarsBased long avoided TailwindCSS due to its missing component library and layout system. Here's what changed our mind and how we added it to our tech stack.

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Why we chose to use Strapi with Remix for our projects

For a long time, we have been looking for a CMS that allows us to simply manage our clients' content. Previously, we have tried solutions such as Locomotive, Maglev, among others, but we have finally decided to integrate Strapi with Remix in our development projects. In this post, we want to share the reasons behind this decision, highlighting the technical aspects and key advantages of this combination.

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Empowering (introvert) tech teams through asynchronous work

Discover how asynchronous work models are revolutionising the tech industry, offering unprecedented flexibility and empowerment for diverse workforce needs. Learn from our unique approach how this model fuels productivity in teams of introverts.

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Candidates priorities are changing

Candidates priorities are changing

Candidates' priorities are shifting from methodology and how we work to how we economically manage our company and how we are financed.

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Forcing New Service Instance Creation. Overriding Dependency Injection in Angular

In Angular, injected services are determined by various factors that we cannot always directly control. In this post, we will see some ways of how to overcome these difficulties.

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Horizontally scale your IoT backends with MQTT Shared Subscriptions

Scale IoT backends horizontally with MQTT Shared Subscriptions

In IoT architectures, choosing the right broker and strategy for consuming data is crucial. I recommend using message broker rules for scalability. If that doesn't fit your needs, consider messaging protocol strategies such as MQTT Shared Subscriptions.

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Our take on remote work

Remote work has been discussed quite a lot lately. After the end of the COVID pandemic a couple of years ago, many companies that had adopted remote working have returned to the office and rejected this way of working. Others, like MarsBased, continue to embrace remote working as we were born with this philosophy and have never stopped believing in it.

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MQTT Broker for IOT

Comparison of MQTT Brokers for IoT

In our recent IoT project for Ecler, we designed their cloud platform and supporting systems for connected amplifiers and sound systems. During the development, we tested three message broker solutions: Mosquitto, NanoMQ, and EMQX. Here are the pros and cons we found for each one of them.

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MarsBased at ISE 2024

We attended ISE 2024 with Ecler, one of our most well-known clients, to present EclerCLOUD, a solution we have built with React, Remix, and Node.js and the EMQX message broker to sync devices with the AWS cloud.

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Image optimization, delivery and CLS

Learn how to optimize web images: compress files, serve the right resolution, use WebP/AVIF, leverage CDNs, and eliminate cumulative layout shift (CLS).

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Life on Mars podcast episode about Shopify

Summary of our conversation with Keyven Ferland, around e-commerce and Shopify

Embarking on the entrepreneurial journey of Kevan Ferland, we uncover the transition from a design freelancer to the helm of LaWeb Shop, a Canadian e-commerce development shop that now specializes in Shopify solutions. The episode delivers an honest account of the raw challenges and strategic triumphs faced along the way.

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