My essentials in toolbelt for MacBook. — I have been using Linux for many years and am amazed that there is a tool for every use case. …

Sometimes, you have to take out the big guns — This article is a continuation of https://betterprogramming.pub/react-v18-demystifying-useref-forwardref-and-useimperativehandle-feec2fc5b2f6 where we saw what refs are and how they operate. …

Part 1: Taming React’s necessary evil — useRef — The concept of values and references is not new to any programmer. Values are what the name suggests, simple snapshots of data at a point in time. To jog your memory for the latter, references are pointers to some data which may change over time, but the reference itself remains…

Double mount in react useEffect() hook — React version 18 has brought some very appreciable changes to the core. One such bittersweet change is in for form of the mount -> unmount -> remount pattern of loading components in strict mode. If you have not tasted this first hand, be prepared because at first glance it seems…

Swiss knife of javascript ninjas, our beloved console.log has some lesser-known yet more powerful variations. In this blog, we’ll explore some methods with examples which I find very useful in day to day debugging and scripting. The console object provides access to the browser's debugging console (e.g. the Web console…

This hook is not something that we’ll need to use in our day-to-day work but is a welcomed approach for user-ended performance tuning. — React v18 introduced the useTransition hook, which may seem like just another hook but let’s look into the use and the indications it lays down for the future. Long long back, React hinted about the concept of concurrent mode, whose implementation was a mystery in itself. However, the goal was…

🐍 Python in browser movement gained some momentum nowadays. All thanks to the PyScript library. See how easy it is to bring it into a simple HTML page with no additional setup:

Testim is an AI-based testing framework that extends the concepts laid by traditional testing veterans like Selenium, Capybara, Jest, etc. Coming from a web development background, I understand the time and effort dedicated to writing and maintaining end-to-end tests. …

Although these two titles are used interchangeably, their whole workflow and the role in a project are complementary. For the past month, I interviewed with a good number of firms for an independent and full-time consultant role. My experiences were quite wholesome and I decided to pen down this article…