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...
Whenever we start thinking of making fresh starts, we tend to prepare a list of short-term goals that we want to achieve. And most of us (9 out of 10 people) end up not fulfilling our goals/resolutions. In this post, we will talk about simple tips that help you to...
React 16.6 was released a couple of days and and it brings a couple of new features. One of these is React.lazy() which is something that requires a separate post in itself along with React Suspense. The other one, which we will talk about in this post is React.memo(). What...
I have been running Facebook Developer Circle Delhi, NCR for the past 2.5 years. We have 15,000 members in the group as of today. In this post, I will share all the lessons that I learned along the way. You can use these if you are to build something from...
If you have been following the javascript ecosystem for a while, you already know that even though ES6 modules are a thing, you still cannot import/export ES6 modules in node.js as of today. Node 10 experimental flag for importing/exporting ES6 modules in Node Though Node 10 has added an experimental...
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