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For video-intensive applications, recommendations are a standard feature. We see recommendations seamlessly function in video apps such as Netflix and YouTube. In this article, we’ll learn how we can add them to our custom applications. Codesandbox The final project can be viewed on Codesandbox. You can find the full…

Images are an important part of the web, so delivering the right image for the right device at the right time while maintaining optimized quality is very important. In this article, we’ll go over a few techniques using Cloudinary-React SDK v2 and JavaScript SDK v2 to apply transformations to our…

With serverless functions, we can write backend or server-side code without the burden of managing servers. One of the core features of Next.js is the API routes which provide an easy solution to create an API endpoint by allowing us to write server-side logic within our Next.js application,…

Over time, engineering efforts have been put into developing more performant web applications. Jamstack technologies like Next.js came from this need. JAMstack technologies like Next.js emerged from an interest in improving the performance of modern web applications. This article will show you one way to improve…

I read this fascinating article about how Cloudinary was used for a World of Warcraft (WOW) campaign, (How Cloudinary made World of Warcraft’s first-ever marketing campaign go viral). My wife is a huge WOW player, and I remember when this campaign went live. She shared the infographics that were…

Carousels, referred to as image sliders or sliders, provide an improved visual experience on websites by highlighting essential aspects of a product, service, or value proposition. An image carousel is a series of images that are moved automatically with a timer or manually using some buttons. This article discusses…

Zooming means enlarging an image so that the details are more visible. Zooming in on a picture has many wide applications ranging from zooming through a camera lens to zooming in on a photo on the internet. On the other hand, Rotate is an image processing feature that allows us…

Video previews have become a standard feature on most media platforms and applications. YouTube provides a perfect example where a user is presented with a video preview when the mouse pointer hovers over the thumbnail. A thumbnail is an image preview of the actual video, as shown in the…

In my last article, I discussed how you could use the IntersectionObserver API to progressively load a higher-quality version of an image when it was in the viewport. This was, in my opinion, a great use of web standards to provide a better experience where possible, while still providing…