As developers, we always want to be more productive. And who does not like to write more code using a lesser number of keystrokes? Code snippets provide is with exactly that. Let us dive deeper into Visual Studio Code snippets in detail in this post. Code snippets refer to common...
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...
The best way to move forward towards achieving our dreams is to commit to them. And habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. But who wants a huge to-do list that we do not even look at it? Does anyone have a better way of doing it? Yes, commitments and...
I was recently working on a project in which I was trying to use a shorthand notation for destructuring assignment of a variable. I was researching different ways of getting a specific scenario to work. And while doing that research, I found that ES2015 had added 3 new object initialization...
The useCallback React hook is a useful hook that can help in optimizing the rendering performance of our functional React components. It is used to memoize functions which means it caches the return value of a function given a set of input parameters. The syntax As we can see, the...
As our application scales to multiple users, we need to start thinking about scaling our servers and applications with it. Load balancing is the activity of effectively distributing traffic load across multiple servers. This is how we achieve highly available applications that help us achieve scaling effectively. What is load-balancing?...
Continuing our React hooks series, we will learn about the useRef React hook in this blog post. The useRef React hook is useful in the following two situations: Before we see these advantages of the hook, let us first understand what the hook is and what it does. What is...
JavaScript promises have been a huge catalyst for asynchronous coding in the language. They have vastly improved the performance and experience for web development. One shortcoming of native promises has been that we were not able to cancel an HTTP fetch request once it was initiated. But now there is...
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