Motivation Needs Help

Motivation Needs Help

  • August 28, 2017

“Not today, I will do it tomorrow.” Sounds familiar? More often than not, we all find ourselves stuck in this situation. It is either the lack of motivation to go for the kill or disinterest in general. We find ourselves worn down along the journey we once wished to conquer...

Using Babel to import/export ES2015 modules in Node.js

Using Babel to import/export ES2015 modules in Node.js

  • August 15, 2017

Using “require” statements (commonJS syntax) in your server side code while writing “import” and “export” statements (ES2015 syntax) for your front end makes writing javascript a bit weird. The reason for not having import and export statements for modules is that node parses modules a bit differently than how they...

Using Webpack Dev Server

Using Webpack Dev Server

  • July 4, 2017

If you have been doing front-end development recently, the chances are that you would have heard about Webpack multiple times. In fact, most of the starter kits are built using Webpack Dev Server. The implementation and configuration are hidden by wrappers above it so that the developer continues working on...

Hello GraphQL using Express

Hello GraphQL using Express

  • June 9, 2017

GraphQL is a query language and a runtime for data querying over an API. It is something that you put in between your front-end application and a backend data service. The first question that comes across in people’s mind is that we already have REST, what problem can then GraphQL...

Parsing JSON in Android Tutorial

Parsing JSON in Android Tutorial

  • March 2, 2017

Note: If you are interested in seeing the implementation of this using retrofit, refer to our other post about Using Retrofit 2 for parsing JSON in Android. I recently got back to developing native Android applications after a long time and the first task of any large-scale application begins with...

Webpack: An Introduction

Webpack: An Introduction

  • January 12, 2017

Before coming to the discussion about Webpack, let us first discuss how web development has evolved over the past few years and why we even need a build tool for something like Javascript. The problem with loading javascript files The only way to load javascript in an HTML document is...