​​State management has always been a vital yet somewhat dreadful aspect for working with React. Recently I’ve had the pleasure of talking to a few R&D teams, each of whom had an entirely different opinion about this topic.

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#React

​​Today, we are going to explore it and develop a custom Hook to manage global states — an easier to use method than Redux, and more performant than Context API.

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#React

​​Being a junior, mid-level, or senior developer doesn’t solely have to do with the years of programming experience that you have. A junior developer can even be older than a senior developer. It all comes down to skill. This doesn’t mean that a senior developer has to be an expert in everything, but it’s safe to say that senior developers are far more skilled than junior and mid-level developers.

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#Career #Skill

​​In our busy work lives, we often forget to WhatsApp our loved ones. Looking at how regular my parents are in messaging me with inspirational quotes and health tips first thing in the morning, it was time to reciprocate.

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#Twilio #AWS #Lambda #WhatsApp #Python

​​Some programmers are better than others. In fact, there’s a statistical distribution: a few are absolutely brilliant, some are good, most are at least competent, some are barely competent and a few are truly dire.

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#Programming #Productivity

​​The HTML 5.2 spec introduced a dialog element that makes it easy to implement native modals and pop-ups. Modals are an important part of almost any non-trivial web app, so it’s promising to think that there’s finally a way to implement one without re-inventing the wheel each time. You can click the button below for an example modal created using the dialog element

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#HTML

​​Recording audio involves a series of steps:

1) Start recording the audio
2) While recording, store the audio data chunks
3) Stop recording the audio
4) Convert the audio data chunks to a single audio data blob
5) Create a URL for that single audio data blob
6) Play the audio

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#Audio #JavaScript

​​Detecting the location of your website’s users is useful for a variety of reasons.
You might, for instance, want to display different content, perhaps in different languages for people from different countries, or display targeted information to visitors from different locations.

3 min read

#JavaScript #API

​​Freelancing 101: how to start earning your side-income as a developer

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#Career

​​Awesome terminal tricks to level up as a developer

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#Terminal

​​To simplify shopping for razors we built a performant, visually-appealing, and secure site. Our architecture performs well across browsers and devices, emphasizes developer ergonomics and modern tools, and lets us continuously deploy with confidence. We think shopflamingo.com can be a model for how to architect other e-commerce sites.


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#JAMstack #Gatsby #eCommerce

​​In this article I am going to talk about two different ways of authentication: stateful and stateless authentication. If you have learnt about networking, you may already heard about stateful and stateless, but in this article I am going to give these two adjectives other meanings.

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#Auth #Security

​​Many developers, regardless of experience, frantically ask: "Which project should I do?"

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#Programming

​​Coding conventions are style guidelines for programming. They typically cover:
• Naming and declaration rules for variables and functions.
• Rules for the use of white space, indentation, and comments.
• Programming practices and principles

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#Programming

The best advice I received about securing my first job as a web developer was to attend meetups.

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#Programming

​​The best advice I received about securing my first job as a web developer was to attend meetups.

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#Programming