Introduction Recently, I was tasked with setting up a new application for one of our internal tools. One of the caveats is that this new application would need to be portable and composable. The application needs to be a standalone web-app, and also appears partially inside other applications. After some careful…

Software engineers often times dislike algorithm interview questions. While our day-to-day work rarely, if ever, requires us to use Leetcode solutions. There are times when these problems show up and being able to come up with a beautiful solution is rather exhilarating. One of the problems that I’ve encountered recently…

Some of us have arrived at this career path through traditional education. We went through colleges/universities, took internships, and now we are here. Others have gotten here through being self-taught, or coding bootcamps. Our journeys have been both shared experiences, yet at the same time very personal. I am writing…

Introduction Since its introduction on React 16.8 in 2019, React hook has become one of the most important concepts in React development. React hooks are generally prefixed with the word use. Two of the most commonly used hooks (no pun intended) are useState and useEffect. From these, we can create…

What is Google Lighthouse? As software engineers, often we need to deal with optimizing and learning how to use the available tools to identify issues and potential fixes. This past week I worked quite a bit with a familiar tool — Google lighthouse and learned quite a few interesting things from it. This article…

Introduction We all have heard of those lists of problems that guarantee you will get a job if you follow or some special programs that can aid you in acing every single interview, etc. While these lists are great, and I have followed some of them over the years, they carry…

You can find part 1 here https://medium.com/@phongtlam/blind-75-javascript-edition-dynamic-programming-part-1-c2bf0a67c573 In part 1, we discussed some of the more difficult Dynamic Programming problems and their respective solutions. The general strategy, as a commenter on my LinkedIn’s post pointed out “Think top-down. Code bottom-up. Always (Amit Agarwal)”. This is a very good strategy to…

Introduction Web applications have evolved to become very fast and responsive. One of the main reasons for this achievement is Promise. It is a way that we, as engineers, can dispatch asynchronous tasks on the web browser, and dynamically update the UI upon fulfilled or rejected statuses of the tasks. As…

We all have seen these imports during our careers: Stop doing this. Sometimes, the import paths become so long, that they might take up multiple lines, or we might take a moment too long to figure out the exact directory by typing ../../ and wait for IntelliSense to guide…