React is very unopinionated about how things should be structured. This is exactly why it’s our responsibility to keep our projects clean and maintainable.

Today, we will talk about some best practices to follow to improve your React application’s health. These rules are widely accepted. As such, having this knowledge is imperative.

Everything will be shown with code, so buckle up!

1. Use JSX ShortHand

Try to use JSX shorthand for passing boolean variables. Let’s say you want to control the title visibility of a Navbar component.

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2. Use Ternary Operators

Let’s say you want to show a particular user’s details based on role.

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3. Take Advantage of Object Literals

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Ever got frustrated with a horrible API where everything’s a guessing game? Well, I have.

In this world of microservices, a consistent design for your backend API is imperative.

Today, we’ll talk about some best practices to follow. We’ll keep it short and sweet — so buckle up!

First, Some Terminology

Any API design follows something called Resource Oriented Design It consists of three key concepts

• Resource: A resource is a piece of data, For example, a User.
• Collection: A group of resources is called a collection. Example: A list of users
• URL: Identifies the location of resource or collection. Example: /user

1. Use kebab-case for URLs

For…

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Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of React developers. Here are some things that separate a great developer from an average one.

1. They Don’t Use Index as the Key

When we render a list, usually we get a warning saying that we need to provide a key for each list item. We lazy people often use the index as the key.

Something like this:

But in the React documentation, they…

Over the years I have had the privilege to work on some large-scale react projects. Today I am gathering some essential things to keep in mind when building a new project or enhancing the functionality of any large scale application.

We will start from the absolute basics and then go deeper. So buckle up!

1. Project Structure

When I started with React it was intuitive for me to keep files by their types. Bus as I had the privilege to work on some larger projects I understood how difficult it can be to navigate through your files as any project grows bigger

Take…

NextJS is a framework that we React developers love and admire. It’s high in demand and very, very powerful.

But when you start to learn this you will see that ReactJS and NextJS mainly differ in the capability of pre-rendering. Which can be a little tricky to grasp at first.

There are multiple strategies for us to choose and it gets confusing at first to apply the correct solution in the correct place. We will take a real-life application and understand which strategy works best for which scenarios.

Let's get started.

The Functions

I hope you already have a basic understanding of…

3.5 Years… That is the time we dreamt of building something that will disrupt the world. It’s all coming to an end now. We ran out of money 3 months ago. We had to fire the whole business team and Only 2 guys from the dev team are still with us.

Ups and downs are part of a start-up journey but I don’t think we will be able to come back this time. Some mistakes are just too serious to come back from. Maybe You can understand why after reading the whole story.

Ideas are easy…

It all started at the end of…

What if I told you that your system only needs one table? If you are like me and have experience with SQL queries and schema design, I bet you are just as surprised as I am.

But this is actually a recommended way to model your database in NoSQL-type databases — especially in DynamoDB.

Today, I will explain how a system can be designed with a single table and the justifications behind this decision.

Tell Me More

Single-table database design is exactly like it sounds. You will have a single table for your entire system.

But how does it work? Different data have…

Data modeling in NoSQL is trickier than normal SQL. Sometimes, it goes against our intuition. Especially coming from an SQL background, I found it hard to comprehend the various reasons behind the data modeling in NoSQL databases like AWS DynamoDB or Firebase.

In this article, I will explain three strategies for modeling one-to-many relationships and the scenarios in which you can use them.

Denormalization + Complex Attribute

Denormalization is a dirty word for SQL developers. But in the NoSQL world, it has its use cases.

Let’s say you have some customers who pay a certain fee at the end of the month. …