I have a few requests from friends in India who want to become a freelancer. I thought of sharing these tips in a blog post.
Getting projects may not be easy when you start. There are a few proven channels for a freelancer in India. They are:
Yes, you should have a blog of your own and proudly declare that you are a full-time freelancer.…
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.…
For many people, adding Redux to a React application may appear as a daunting task. In my opinion, it is not so difficult. With exactly three changes, we can add Redux to an existing react application. For our example, I am going to create the React application using CRA or create-react-app. CRA is a nice utility from Facebook to quickly create React apps.…
Blockchain is a technology for building decentralized apps. We are used to storing data in centralised databases. For the sake of fault tolerance, we may have clusters of databases distributed geographically. But that does not make traditional databases decentralized. All of the databases are controlled by a single company. Blockchain makes the data politically decentralized. There is no single authority that controls all of data.…
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.…
I took a formal Mongo course by Stephen Grider on Udemy. I am very happy with the way Stephen teaches. It is slow. Very relevant and practical. I feel accomplished and satisfied after the course. I prepared a few interview questions on Mongo and Mongoose which are quite useful.
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.…
Bird Bot is a Facebook messenger bot. Bird watchers in India shoot photos of birds. And they want to know the bird name. My good old friend from college is an expert in Machine learning. He is building a bird identification api with the help of TensorFlow and Keras. I am helping him with the front-end. Instead of developing an app with React Native, I wrote a simple bot which works with Facebook messenger.…
ES2015 introduces Promise API as a replacement for callbacks. There are a few things that you may not know.
Consider the following async code.
setTimeout(someFunc, 1000);
setTimeout function waits for one second and then places the function someFunc at the end of the event loop. All other functions in event loop are processed before someFunc is taken up for processing.…