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I moved to Toronto last year with family. As it takes time to adjust to living in Canada, I do not have time to blog.
Apart from the Toronto move, I am spending more time working in C++. I spend 50% of my time in writing backend code with C++.
Code review is something that I do not enjoy. But it has a lot of benefits.…
Progressive web apps (PWA) allow users to add the web app to the home screen. The goal is to make a web app look like a native app. So, a PWA is responsive and adjusts well to appear good in any mobile device. Even when the device is offline, it should render some content. Optionally, it should respond to push notifications, sync the app content in the background and have the capability to access camera, location, etc.…
When we have multiple projects using similar code, there is an urge to publish them as NPM packages. Should we publish them as public NPM packages or private NPM packages which can be used only within our enterprise? Or when should we avoid publishing a NPM package?
Let’s assume we have this question for UI projects. Most UI projects run on the browser.…
I hear this question quite often: How do I perform input validations in React? I have two answers. One answer is simple: Use redux-form. The other answer is what I do: Use plain JavaScript. This article is about how I do input validations using plain JavaScript.
Consider a simple form with a name input, email input and submit button. Let us validate name and email.…
Sometimes, life is not easy. And DevOps can be a pain. Strangely, it was Docker that was causing it.
Recently, I set up Jenkins for continuous integration on DigitalOcean. There are so many ways to do the same thing. And if something does not work, you try to tweak some settings to get it to work. Thankfully, there is a standard way to do things.…
Running MySQL in a Docker container is a fairly straight-forward task. In this article, I will take an opportunity to use this task to explain a few basic concepts about how Docker works.
The first step is to create a droplet in DigitalOcean. And then install Docker engine in it. Thankfully, docker-machine does both with a single command.
docker-machine create --driver digitalocean --digitalocean-access-token <accesstoken> mysql-droplet
We specify the driver as DigitalOcean to create our droplet.…
My blog runs on WordPress app hosted in BlueHost. Backup and Restore is simple with WordPress. But it requires a plugin. We should have a process for backup and restore. In this post, I will explain a process outline.
WordPress stores data in a MySQL database. It also has media uploads in a separate folder in the file system. To backup, we should make a copy of both the files and the database.…
It was Black Friday weekend. And I bought 8 courses from Udemy. One of the things that I have learned is how to learn from online courses. Initially, I viewed courses from PluralSight. One of the instructors in PluralSight misguided me into listening to courses when I was doing my gym routine or when I am free. It is one of the worst ways to learn coding.…
I completed another Stephen course in Udemy. It is the GraphQL and Apollo client course. I really love the way Stephen Grider lays it out in his own unique style. There are 100s of blog posts on “Why GraphQL” or “GraphQL vs REST”. And I do not want to take sides. However, I have listed down two specific cases where GraphQL shines.…
Prettier is a code formatter. It improves code consistency. Often, we have developers with their own styles of writing code. And it is quite difficult to tell them something as silly as formatting. But with this new utility, we don’t need to have ground rules on code formatting. It is taken care for us. The following screenshot shows how it works.…