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Hi, my name is Marco. Working as a Senior Software Architect at Philips. I'm an Opensource Maintainer and Contributor. If you like my work, consider to sponsor my work.

I wrote my first blog March 2011. Mostly I'm writing on software development. In total I wrote 75 articles in 7 categories. Use search below to filter by title or click a category or tag to filter by tag or category.

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Hello Next.js, goodbye Hexo

Marco Franssen / January 16, 2021

For the folks reading my blog for a long time, you might have noticed I'm using my current theme and blogging engine for a long time. About 5 years ago I migrated from Wordpress to Hexo. Wordpress at that point in time was costing me serious money to get a decent performing webpage according to modern standards. So back then I decided to move into a statically generated blog, where I could write my blogs offline using markdown. Hexo has served me very well the last couple of years. It is a stat…

Nginx 1.19 supports environment variables and templates in Docker

Marco Franssen / August 9, 2020

In this blog I want to show you a nice new feature in Nginx 1.19 Docker image. I requested it somewhere 2 years ago when I was trying to figure out how I could configure my static page applications more flexibly with various endpoints to backing microservices. Back then I used to have my static pages fetch a json file that contained the endpoints for the apis. This way I could simply mount this json file into my container with all kind of endpoints for this particular deployment. It was some sor…

React Router and Nginx over HTTP/2

Marco Franssen / March 28, 2020

In this blogpost I want to show you how you can easily get your React SPA app with clientside router work properly with your Nginx setup. I will also show you how to serve your React App over HTTP/2 and how you can leverage from http2 server pushes. To do so I will show you how to do that with the Nginx Docker image. When running your webapp using the development server you will in general not face any issues, however when running the static build on a production server you will most likely fac…