Testing our code brings in a variety of benefits, including building confidence in the code’s functioning and having lesser regressions. Writing and maintaining tests requires some additional work, and that is why we want to leverage tools as much as we can. Python does provide inbuilt tools such as unittest...
The process to format a number as currency can be a tedious task. It feels like a small task, but the number of lines and the edge cases can keep on increasing when considering factors such as internationalization and different formatting standards. Luckily, ES2015 introduced an internationalization API which can...
I recently got the new Apple Silicon Mac (aka the M1 mac), which means having to deal with the pain points of buying the first generation of something product. Though things are slowly improving, there are still many gotchas when it comes to using the first generation of a product....
Flask is a python framework for writing web applications. It is a microframework, which as the name suggests, is a small, clean, and simple to use framework. It comes with a minimal set of features, which sounds like a strange choice at first. So why would we choose Flask if...
When we start building a Python project that goes beyond simple scripts, we tend to start using third-party dependencies. When working on a larger project, we need to think about managing these dependencies in an efficient manner. And when installing dependencies, we always want to be inside virtual environments. It...
AWS CLI is a great tool for doing anything related to AWS. We can configure our access key for an account using an access key ID and a secret access key. But what if we want to use multiple accounts on the same computer? If we are working on multiple...
EcmaScript 2015 introduced yet another feature that has not been used widely yet. A JavaScript proxy allows us to wrap an existing object with a layer. The layer can provide us with capabilities such as the interception of attributes and methods. And this can be done even if the properties...
As developers, we always want to be more productive. And who does not like to write more code using a lesser number of keystrokes? Code snippets provide is with exactly that. Let us dive deeper into Visual Studio Code snippets in detail in this post. Code snippets refer to common...
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