We have previously written about parsing JSON in Android without using any libraries in this post. In this one, we will use a library (Retrofit) for doing the same. Retrofit 2 is a HTTP client written in java. It is a type safe library that makes HTTP API calls. You...
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...
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...
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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