Get to know this lesser-known JavaScript package manager — pnpm is a package manager for JavaScript, like npm and yarn. I personally feel that pnpm is less known than it should be. According to the README in the repository, pnpm is: • Fast. As fast as npm and Yarn. • Efficient. One version of a package is saved only…

Nowadays, web-apps are expected to be more and more powerful. Since the conception of AJAX, the web is no longer a medium to simply view HTML documents. People are building an actual full-fledged app to run on web browsers! These are made possible by the ever-growing list of new web…

Turn your commit messages into release notes for your users — Changelogs are great. They give us a record of what changes in our project were made at a particular time. If you’re writing a library, it also gives your users awareness of what changed and gives the impression that your library is well-maintained and can be relied on. Tools such…

Learn WebAssembly while building a Wasm-based QR decoder for the browser — WebAssembly (Wasm) has been around for about two years. It is still relatively new technology. For some reason, something about it always feels scary to me. Maybe because it has Assembly in its name? Or maybe it’s having to code in a language that is very different to JavaScript? Whatever…

Tokopedia is one of the largest e-commerce platforms in Indonesia. Our users can virtually search for any products they might want to buy at Tokopedia. One thing we have noticed is that new users often found out about Tokopedia when they are searching through the web; sometimes, using their mobile…

The React team made quite an announcement when they revealed hooks in React. Hooks allow functional component to have state, access to lifecycle (called effects), context, and other stuffs. The community seems to have mixed opinions and some concerns about what this means for React moving forward. …

When working with React, code reusability is one of the problem that we often have to face. Being a library that promotes component-based pattern, it is only natural to build reusable components. …