An in-depth guide on how to choose the perfect npm package — React is simply great. It’s popular and performant. But an important aspect of React is that it doesn’t come with all of the solutions packed in. That’s why we need to search for additional libraries which can be both good and bad. If you are a beginner, then you have…

Practical advice for improving code quality — 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 discuss some best practices to improve your React application’s health. These rules are widely accepted. As such, having this knowledge is imperative. Everything…

Practical advice for designing REST APIs — Ever get 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…

If you’re writing enterprise-level code, you need to know this — 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…

Simple but elegant solution. — Styled components is a popular CSS framework for single-page applications. Today we will see how we can create animations using styled-components. To learn more about styled-components go here. styled-components Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅🏾styled-components.com Now let’s see how we can animate our components using styled-components.

All Common Use Cases — AWS S3 is one of the most popular cloud storage services. It is a great place to store your data and make it available to your users. It is also a great place to store your backups. This guide will show you how to interact with AWS S3 in NodeJS. What will we learn? …

30 modern UI Libraries. All in one place — Choosing a good UI library is so hard. Because it’s hard to predict which components are missing. Maybe another library would do a good job? I faced this issue over and over again. So, Today I have gathered 30 UI libraries for building React applications. We have all kinds of…

When using AWS Cognito user pools, we usually use a client-side library like aws amplify to manage all the authentication processes. But there can be some situations where you must handle the authentication process yourself. When users use a UI to log in using their email and password and get…

After reading, you will wish the same too — The Node Package Manager (npm) is very open about what packages you can publish or not. Over the years there are some awesome packages that we all want and love. But today we won’t look into that. We will see some ridiculous npm packages and try to understand why they…