20 posts found for the tag General Programming

Exploring Advanced JavaScript Features: A Deep Dive into ECMAScript 2023 Updates

Posted on September 23, 2024

ECMAScript, also known as the backbone of JavaScript, has come a long way since its birth at Netscape in 1995. Within two years, it was standardized as ECMAScript 1. It only took ECMAScript 4 years to reach its third generation. By 1999, it had gaine...

Effective Ways to Manage Shadcn Dialog Box: 3 Tips with Code

Posted on September 16, 2024

Recently I encountered a couple of challenging use cases with the shadcn/ui dialog box with forms as its content. As I learned to tackle them, here is what I learned to share with you, hoping that it helps you as well. First, the shadcn dialog box co...

Why the with() method of JavaScript Array is a gem?

Posted on July 8, 2024

JavaScript array methods offer plenty to web developers already. The methods like map(), reduce(), filter() , some(), every(), and many more have helped build our JavaScript muscles for better logic and algorithms. The with() method is a relatively n...

Next.js and Next-Auth V5: Guide to Social Logins(OAuth)

Posted on June 12, 2024

Authentication and Authorization are the implicit needs for any user-facing application. Using authentication users let the application and underlying services know who they are, and if they are the legitimate people to get access to the system. Ther...

What is Authentication and Authorization - Explain like I am five

Posted on March 20, 2024

Full-stack development is not just about making the front end talk to the back end, and vice-versa. You need to keep additional peripherals in mind to put yourself in the shoes of a full-stack developer. A full-stack developer should be equipped with...

How to upload and preview images in ReactJS?

Posted on March 9, 2024

Uploading and previewing images are fundamental requirements in any modern user-centric application. Be it Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, LinkedIn, whatever you name, you have it there. In this article, we will learn how to handle image uplo...

How to navigate between routes in Next.js?

Posted on December 8, 2023

Next.js App router enables us to create file-system-based routing where the top-level app/ folder acts as the root route(/), and a special page.js file under it acts as the page for that route segment. Often, we would like to go from one page to anot...

10 Git stash commands every developer should know

Posted on November 29, 2023

Developers are agile. Their work environments are also rapid and fast-moving to keep them on their toes most of the time. I can imagine a situation like this would be quite normal at your workplace: You are working on a feature and, in between, makin...

The Definitive Guide to Date and Time in JavaScript

Posted on November 17, 2023

Introduction There are now nearly 9 million apps worldwide, and practically all of them run on an internal clock. Financial apps are built on timestamped data. Office apps run on calendars. Social apps are defined by their feeds, timelines and annive...

Dynamic routes recipes from Next.js App Router

Posted on November 9, 2023

Next.js App Router has brought many improvements over its predecessor, Page Router. One of the significant improvements is the routing itself. Next.js App Router uses the file-system-based router, where you create directories(aka folders) to define r...

The best way to pad a string in JavaScript

Posted on November 2, 2023

Padding a string means filling up a string with another character sequence or string. For example, you have written a function to the time formatted in hh:mm:ss format. function getTime() { const hour = new Date().getHours(); const min = new Dat...

The best way to get the month name from a date in JavaScript

Posted on September 14, 2023

JavaScript Date object provides many helpful methods for dealing with date and time. The list is so vast that it is sometimes hard for developers to track which method provides what value. Also, it is a bit tricky to retrieve a few information straig...

Create an e-learning platform using caisy and next.js app router

Posted on September 1, 2023

Developers learn better when they build or create something out of their learnings. We need to put our learnings into practice and try problem-solving. When we attempt to learn multiple technologies together or try out a tech stack, it makes sense to...

Understanding Next.js Server Actions With Examples

Posted on August 9, 2023

Next.js is a React-based framework for building performant, optimized, and scalable full-stack applications. As React developers, we create components, manage state, and handle data communications between them. Then Next.js comes on top of it to prov...

PWA: Bridging the Gap Between Web and Mobile Development

Posted on July 4, 2023

Not even Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, could have predicted the pace or breadth of its expansion over the last 30 years. Once, the web was only accessible via clunky desktop computers. Today it can be reached from laptops, tabl...

Explain React 18 useTransition Hook with Examples

Posted on May 2, 2023

React 18 has changed how developers design and write ReactJS code. Including the Concurrency model and many other new hooks help tackle niche use cases like responsiveness, performance, etc. In this article, we will discuss the hook I like most, the ...

Advanced JavaScript Console Logging for Developers

Posted on April 12, 2023

The flood of software innovation over the past 20 years would not have been possible without agile working. The concept of releasing fast, taking feedback, and building back better has birthed the iPhone, social networks and the Cloud. The world woul...

How to Create a Self-Clicking Button with ReactJS?

Posted on March 27, 2023

What is a Self-Clicking Button? HTML has a <button> tag to create a clickable button element. You can attach an event handler to it to define an action to perform when users click on the button. <button onclick="handleClick()">Click me</button> A se...

What do you need to know to become proficient in JavaScript?

Posted on March 22, 2023

JavaScript is everywhere! It's the web browser's language and helps you create web, mobile, and desktop applications. Today, JavaScript is not limited to the client side alone; it is equally popular as the base of server-side frameworks like Node.js ...

Top 10 Git Commands Every Developer Should Know

Posted on February 24, 2023

Software developers tend to work in packs. We pool our creativity (and our code) to build software and our strength in numbers helps reduce the risk of errors. The more people who check code and scan for bugs, the cleaner our final product will be. H...