Saransh Kataria

How to format a Number as Currency using ES2015

How to format a Number as Currency using ES2015

  • March 4, 2021

The process to format a number as currency can be a tedious task. It feels like a small task, but the number of lines and the edge cases can keep on increasing when considering factors such as internationalization and different formatting standards. Luckily, ES2015 introduced an internationalization API which can...

Installing Intel-based packages using Homebrew on the M1 Mac

Installing Intel-based packages using Homebrew on the M1 Mac

  • March 3, 2021

I recently got the new Apple Silicon Mac (aka the M1 mac), which means having to deal with the pain points of buying the first generation of something product. Though things are slowly improving, there are still many gotchas when it comes to using the first generation of a product....

Getting started with Flask: a Python microframework

Getting started with Flask: a Python microframework

  • February 25, 2021

Flask is a python framework for writing web applications. It is a microframework, which as the name suggests, is a small, clean, and simple to use framework. It comes with a minimal set of features, which sounds like a strange choice at first. So why would we choose Flask if...

Managing Python dependencies using Virtual Environments

Managing Python dependencies using Virtual Environments

  • February 23, 2021

When we start building a Python project that goes beyond simple scripts, we tend to start using third-party dependencies. When working on a larger project, we need to think about managing these dependencies in an efficient manner. And when installing dependencies, we always want to be inside virtual environments. It...

Configure multiple accounts in AWS CLI

Configure multiple accounts in AWS CLI

  • February 19, 2021

AWS CLI is a great tool for doing anything related to AWS. We can configure our access key for an account using an access key ID and a secret access key. But what if we want to use multiple accounts on the same computer? If we are working on multiple...

JavaScript Proxy: What and Why?

JavaScript Proxy: What and Why?

  • February 16, 2021

EcmaScript 2015 introduced yet another feature that has not been used widely yet. A JavaScript proxy allows us to wrap an existing object with a layer. The layer can provide us with capabilities such as the interception of attributes and methods. And this can be done even if the properties...

Avoiding race conditions and memory leaks in React useEffect

Avoiding race conditions and memory leaks in React useEffect

  • February 8, 2021

Let us take a look at an implementation of getting data from an API request and see if there is any possibility of race conditions happening in this component: We have specified an empty array as a dependency to the useEffect React hook. So we have ensured that the fetch...