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• Checklist to spot edge cases in API contracts, design mockups & product behaviour

  Published on 30 Oct 2021

  6 mins read

  Use this checklist to find holes in team's understanding and prevent them from snowballing into show stoppers

• Setup Git for work & personal GitHub accounts

  Published on 8 Aug 2021

  5 mins read

  So you joined a new company and made a dedicated GitHub account for work. Maybe you thought it would be more secure, maybe you were feeling adventurous or maybe you thought that's what hardcore engineers do.

• Bring app components to Storybook

  Published on 14 Jan 2021

  6 mins read

  Mock API requests made by components with MSW addon right from the story.

• Implement Animated Toasts in React

  Published on 2 Dec 2020

  6 mins read

  Learn how to make a Toast component with animations using React, Framer Motion, and Zustand.

• Testing a Redux Hooked App

  Published on 13 Oct 2020

  8 mins read

  Learn how to write integration tests for a food ordering app using React Testing Library.

• How to Hook Redux in a React App

  Published on 6 Oct 2020

  9 mins read

  Use the new Redux hooks to build a food ordering app. Learn UI patterns like fetching data from API, adding items to cart, and applying filters.

• Why named arguments are better than positional arguments

  Published on 22 Aug 2020

  5 mins read

  By passing arguments as objects, we can make reusable functions with less bugs. This approach is called named arguments. Read on to understand why its better.

• React Buttons with the Base + Variant Pattern

  Published on 8 Aug 2020

  6 mins read

  Composing React buttons for design systems with the Base and Variant pattern.

• Optimize Your React App with React.memo

  Published on 3 Jul 2020

  11 mins read

  Learn how to use React.memo and useMemo together to optimize your React app performance.

• Better Components with TailwindCSS

  Published on 12 Jan 2020

  5 mins read

  TailwindCSS is great for building reusable components of our design systems. The component itself can be written in React, Vue, etc. and we'll get the same benefits.

• Understanding React Render Props and HOC

  Published on 22 Oct 2018

  7 mins read

  A detailed introduction to Render Props and Higher-Order Components in React.

• How to escape from the async/await hell

  Published on 6 Apr 2018

  10 mins read

  async/await freed us from callback hell, but people have started abusing it — leading to the birth of async/await hell.

• Things I wish I knew before I started working with MongoDB

  Published on 17 Sep 2017

  5 mins read

  When MEAN stack was very popular I built a pet project to learn it. Here's something I wish people told me early on...