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...
Gatsby has become fairly popular in the last couple of years and it has starting becoming the go to static site generator for a lot of projects. The smooth developer experience and the warm community has enriched the adoption even more. TypeScript has had a similar growth curve and has...
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...
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