Promises have not been a new concept in the javascript community. They have existed in the ecosystem for a long time. JavaScript promises existed even before they were officially made a part of the ECMAScript spec in ES6. These initial implementations of JavaScript promise were in the form of framework...
The rest and spread operator have changed the way I do a lot of things in JavaScript and I have started using the three dots for a lot of tasks I do. I have become a big fan of the syntax and I will be sharing some of the numerous...
CSS in JS is a fairly controversial topic depending on who you talk to. What it gives you is the ability to do is write all your styling in javascript instead of creating a separate CSS file. I really like CSS in JS because it solves some of the major...
The web is and probably always be an ever-evolving platform. Even though most of us have a decent internet connection these days, it is not the case for everyone in the world. Even if you have a nice internet, it might be flaky if you are traveling. Such situations can...
As you might know, I have been diving into setting up a boilerplate for a TypeScript project with React. And what good is a project without a unit testing framework? So I will go through the process of setting up Jest with TypeScript and Babel in this post. If you...
The Typescript team recently announced its road map. Interestingly, they have decided to not focus on TSLint any more and focus their efforts on ESLint for Typescript linting instead. This is a great thing for the community overall since ESLint becomes the defacto linting tool going forward. In this post,...
After seeing a lot of projects making the move to Typescript, I recently started to give it a shot as well. For people who are not aware of typescript, it is a wrapper over javascript which has built-in support for types. We get static checking for our code as well...
I have already written a detailed post about my experiences as a community manager in the past. It was a generic one containing some interesting insights life pro tips as well. However, in trying to make it generic, I omitted some community management tips that I wanted to share. I...
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