When working with React, developers often come across the need to render lists of items efficiently. Every item in a list needs to have a key prop assigned to it. It is essential for enabling React to track changes made to these items. Using array indexes as these keys is...
Chrome devtools has a collection of utilities that can be used to perform common debugging tasks and make our life easier. The $ sign shortcuts are one such set of utilities. Let us see how to debug better using these $ sign shortcuts in Chrome devtools. $_ Typing in $_ in...
Once you get a grasp of what GraphQL is, and why it is important, you also realize that it is a different design process. And before diving into the implementation, it is important that we understand the GraphQL basics, the various terminologies that come with it. If you are just...
Developing APIs for the web has never been an easy task for developers. REST has been the defacto standard for designing web APIs for the last decade. Considering REST’s wild popularity, the first question that pops into anyone’s head when they start reading about GraphQL is: Why GraphQL? Why do...
Promises have not been a new concept in the javascript community. They have existed in the ecosystem for a long time. JavaScript promises existed even before they were officially made a part of the ECMAScript spec in ES6. These initial implementations of JavaScript promise were in the form of framework...
The rest and spread operator have changed the way I do a lot of things in JavaScript and I have started using the three dots for a lot of tasks I do. I have become a big fan of the syntax and I will be sharing some of the numerous...
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...
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