Having consistency and enforcing coding standards becomes very important as an application scales. It becomes important to automate the process to ensure quality standards and make the application maintainable. ESLint and Prettier can be used to define these standards, but we also need a tool to enforce them. Husky provides...
If you have been using React for a while, you are familiar with how state update works. There are a lot of internal optimizations that React makes for faster rendering. One of the implementation details of the React internals is that it checks whether the given state object has actually...
TypeScript provides some built-in utility types that help facilitate transformations of types from one form to another. These utilities are available globally. They can be quite handy in various situations. TypeScript generics Before understanding the TypeScript utility types, it is important to understand type aliases and generics. You can create...
Once we start exploring TypeScript, we start using interfaces and types without really understanding the differences between them. I am guilty of doing that as well. It is simple to get started with them and keep using them. But, at some point, it becomes important to know the difference between...
Mutant is an open-source, cross-platform, compiled, garbage collected, encrypted programming language that wants to make secure programming and security research more accessible. The target audience for mutant is students, security researchers, and reverse engineers. The aim is to provide an accessible, secure system for programming & security research. And it...
Writing conditional expressions is pretty easy to do. But there is room for improvement in the way we have been doing it. And with the flexibility that JavaScript provides, we can replace conditionals with clean code by using some good practices. And it can lead to more maintainable code. Let...
The introduction of type hinting opened the gates for many great new features in Python. And data validation and parsing became easier to do with the use of type hints. Pydantic is one such package that enforces type hints at runtime. It throws errors, allowing developers to catch invalid data....
Every now and then, you come across a JavaScript feature that vastly changes the way you write it. Destructuring, arrow functions, modules have been some of those features for me. Optional chaining is going to be the next one on that list for me. Optional Chaining is in stage 4...
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