Use local Postgress during development with docker compose

17 tools that will help you write CLI packages, and few more tips

Diagram - Releasing a version to QA

In this post, I lay out a version release flow to QA. at a very high level.

The role of code review in the overall development process

Conducting code reviews as part of the daily routines makes your code better, reduces the chances of escaped bugs, regressions, silly mistakes, or undesired flows that weren't part of the product requirements. Some people swear by code reviews, while others see them as unnecessary headaches. By fine-tuning the process, you can balance the process to improve code quality and deliveries while minimizing the overall process burden. Although very popular, code reviews are only part of a development process and don't stand independently. This article covers the whole development flow, where code review is part of that flow.

Solving Storybook runtime issue with "Object prototype may only be an Object or null: undefined"

After upgrading dependencies in my React project to resolve 8,200 vulnerabilities in our project (that was free of vulnerabilities only 3 months ago), storybook fails to open with the following error \`Object prototype may only be an Object or null: undefined\`

How can a team concur mountain hills together

Working with talented teammates lets you climb higher mountains faster and better. When each person does his best, assuming his best is being overall successful, everyone shines. In a healthy team, when you appreciate someone, you focus your energy on your responsibilities and let him take care of his/her responsibilities. This is my take on what makes a team tick.

Upgrade multiple dependencies at the same time

Use library `npm-check-updates` to perform a bulk update of scoped libraries at the same time.

Know how much money you have across all your accounts and shape your future with a personalized budget

You finally decided to determine how much money you have, and take advantage of #technology to make sure you don't get into overdraft by planning a #udget - Great! What is the first step needed to plan a budget? In this post, I discuss reasons to start budgeting and provide some tips that might help with that.

How to isolate component styles in React using CSS modules

React is a library for building front-end applications by building encapsulated components and composing them into a complex user interface. As a component manages its own state, DOM structure, behaviors and user interactivity, one can assume that it also manages its own styles. Yet once landing in the browser at runtime, the styles of all the components are added to the same place on the page level and affect all, so style collision is inevitable. Read this post to discover one possible solution named CSS module and how it efficiently prevents the class name collision.

Understanding RxJS - Learn From Examples - Part 1

Many articles are discussing RxJS, and this is yet another one addressing beginners and even moderate level developers that want to understand the core concepts. The post was written based on a session I did at my workplace as we are using RxJS intensively to handle complex asynchronous use-cases efficiently.

Building A Solid Frontend Application Stack That Works For You

There are countless ways to design a new frontend application. You have to consider the product requirements, non-functional requirements, and assumptions based on your previous experience. You also need to dig deep and ask tough questions so you would not be surprised later down the road. In this post, I share the result of the process we did, and the decisions we took for the product we are currently developing, an interactive and extendible video editor.

14 Questions Every Developer Should Ask Themselves Before Setting Up A New Frontend Project

I love the fresh feeling of setting up a brand-new development project from scratch. But beware… some of the decisions you make now are going to affect your execution and deliverables down the line.