Today, most applications are API-driven. Whether creating a weather forecast, a financial ticker, a sports score alert, or translating a local language, you’ll need to connect 3rd party APIs to access the required data. APIs are typically metered, and consumption is limited through Rate Limiting. A rate-limited API defines an…

A brief introduction — Parsing is the process of converting formatted text into a data structure. A data structure type can be any suitable representation of the information engraved in the source text. Tree type is a common and standard choice for XML parsing, HTML parsing, JSON parsing, and any programming language parsing. The…

JavaScript Object Notion (JSON) is a de-facto standard for exchanging data over Web API. JSON is a recursive data structure and can be visualized as a key-value pairs tree. There are two broad categories of APIs for reading information from JSON : Streaming Based: It is parsing or visiting of…

Continuous change is the key to balance software development. — Software development is not only about code. It is also about the process and the people around it. At the core, Product (Business) Managers and Developers turn the idea of Software into reality. In the philosophical view of Software development, there exist two realms that affect the reality of Software…

Uploading files over the internet is not an easy task. It involves considerable challenges in developing a solution that works for all file sizes. Uploading files are prone to failures, users drop, and security risks. On each failure, the file needs to be re-uploaded: which adversely affects associated user experience. Problems Network Bandwidth & File Size …

Publisher-subscriber event model on top of Reactive Programming. — Event-Based Programming is natural to any GUI based interface. HTML DOM¹ offers an inbuilt Event Notification model, but it is only useful when dealing with DOM Elements. There is no support for non-DOM elements. Web applications have grown in complexity with time; also, JavaScript started participating in backend applications, which…

Level up consistency of coding standard — Editor Config is an INI¹ format based configuration system that let you establish project level coding standard; It allows configuring: indentation style, indentation size, line width and more. …

IDE integrated options to assist the writing of configuration files. — In modern software development, the applications are driven by configuration. If configurable properties are large in numbers, then it is difficult to remember the purpose, structure and type of each property. It becomes a necessity to invest in the documentation of these properties. This article explores IDE integrated options to…

Tools of Object-oriented programming — With the introduction of OOPs, Inheritance and Composition entered our senses and still confusing us. Choosing between Composition and Inheritance is not easy. Often, the decision depends upon the information which is not yet there. The structure of an application plays an essential role in adding changes. Composition and Inheritance…