A few uncommon but useful typescript types - with examples — Introduction Typescript is awesome! It allows developers to use primitive and user-defined types in javascript. Lately, more and more javascript frameworks are providing firsthand Typescript support; Angular, Vue, NodeGUI and many more. If you haven’t tried it out yet, I would highly recommend it. You can get started here. Disclaimer: This…

A quick React Custom Hooks tutorial — with examples! — Introduction React introduced hooks in the v16.8 release and they’re just plain fantastic! They’ve enabled developers to extract business logic out from components that weren’t otherwise possible with class-based components. This not only made the code shorter and cleaner but also provisioned for the sharing of logic and not just UI…

Ever wondered how facebook’s create-react-app handles the bundling and bootstrapping behind the abstraction of yarn build? Let’s try to bootstrap our own react application using webpack 4 and babel. 😸 I’ll be using yarn through this article but please if you use npm, well, that’s fine too. 😁 What is webpack and babel? Essentially, converting…

So this is going to be a super short primer for people who’re trying to write JOI extensions. I recently wrote an extension to validate mongodb object IDs and I’ll document the steps for the same here; Let’s get started Joi uses something called as extension objects to “extend” its…

Not so long ago, I got myself into a “many-to-many associations” soup (Yes, me is noob 😓). Hence, I am composing this tutorial as a follow up to my previous post in order to help anybody avoid the certain common pitfalls. But, before we begin: Disclaimer: It is assumed that…

Ever spent hours of your time trying to accumulate data from multiple tables and serve a combined response but only ended up with buggy code? So did I. Associations were my way out, I figured. …