When creating a GraphQL server with relational data, we want to return the data in a hierarchical format with those relationships in a single query. After all, that is where GraphQL comes in handy, right? Let us look into how we can do this using nested queries in GraphQL. This...
One of the many complaints about the GraphQL ecosystem is that there is a lot of indirection around what packages to use to create a GraphQL application. Even after selecting one, there is a lot of boilerplate code that one must create to make a GraphQL server work. While that...
When writing unit-tests for JavaScript modules, we often encounter a dilemma wherein the module has some private functions that have not been exported. Testing a function that has been exported is easy since it can be imported in the unit testing framework, and the functionality can be tested. But how...
If you have tried developing your own dropdown, modal, or popover in React, you would have come across this. “How do I detect a click outside my react component so that I can close it?” Detecting click outside component is luckily is not that difficult. This post will use react...
Protocol buffers or Protobuf, is a binary format that was created by Google to serialize structured data that is transferred among services. Before we get into what protocol buffers are, let us first look into JSON. JSON clearly has great advantages when it comes to being a data interchange format...
The latest version of ECMAScript introduced three new logical assignment operators: nullish, AND, and OR operators. These are supported from Firefox 79 onwards, Chrome 85 onwards, and naturally there is no IE support but since Edge is now chromium based, it is available there too. They are not available in...
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...
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...
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