The groupBy method is one of the reasons people use lodash in their project. In this blog post, we will write our own version of groupBy using reduce and vanilla JavaScript. What groupBy does? groupBy works on an array of items, and it groups these items together into an object...
We all know what we should be doing right now. But we don’t want to! That is procrastination in a nutshell. Everything will be fine. I’ll finish it tomorrow. I still have plenty of time. These are famous lines used by every procrastinator. And even though we do end up...
In this react hooks series, we have already explored the react hooks useState, useEffect, and useReducer. The next react hook we will look into is the useContext hook. As we saw while building our sample application, we had to lift the state up to our root component in order to...
Building upon our React hooks introduction from our previous post on understanding React hooks (useState and useEffect), we will look at the useReducer hook in this post. useReducer hook can be an alternative to useState (in fact, useState uses useReducer internally). Before getting into how to use the useReducer hook,...
React hooks have been around for quite some time. They have been widely adopted by the React community since then and have started becoming the defacto for newer React applications. A react hook allows developers to hook into React features. React hooks allow building components by using functions instead of...
If you have not been living under a rock for the past few years, you probably have heard of async/await. It has been one of the interesting additions to EcmaScript. It makes control flow easier to understand and read and also allows to write concise, maintainable code. If you need...
Once you get a grasp of what GraphQL is, and why it is important, you also realize that it is a different design process. And before diving into the implementation, it is important that we understand the GraphQL basics, the various terminologies that come with it. If you are just...
Developing APIs for the web has never been an easy task for developers. REST has been the defacto standard for designing web APIs for the last decade. Considering REST’s wild popularity, the first question that pops into anyone’s head when they start reading about GraphQL is: Why GraphQL? Why do...
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