Front end development is still largely under-estimated in many organisations. It can be hard to gauge the complexities involved in developing simple features. — Front-end has grown extravagantly complex over the past couple of years. It is an ever-changing technology stack, however, at many levels, it's still underestimated in many organisations. There's a lot that goes into a front end development. Brandon Morelli has done a great job of showing the level of complexities…

Mocking api requests in jest using jest-api-mock; an extensible solution to mock multiple api responses. — You might have already read the previous blog on mocking multiple api’s with jest. It explains the idea behind how i extended jest.mock to mock apis. More on that — here. I have created an npm package over the approach mentioned in the previous blog. In this write up, i…

Mocking api requests in jest via manual mocks and providing a way to create an extensible solution to mock multiple api responses. — Jest is a great testing framework used to usually test react components. I’ve recently finished up a big application and used mobx for all my state needs. …

In an organization, its not common that many backend developers at times had to dirty their hands making and building the UI. Though i’d not like to use the term ‘dirty their hands’, but lets face it, for most its not been a pleasant experience. …

The intricate build system — First build it , then improve it and finally optimize it I have always followed the principles of measuring the need before building something new. As developers, there is always an urge to work on the latest tech stack and this blinds people to adopt technologies which do not suit…

My efforts towards becoming socially better — Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. -Brian Tracy Working in a startup has its own perks. And one such perk is to…

I’ve got a new-found respect for the Hiring department now that I know how difficult it is to find the right talent. I’ve been working as a front end engineer in a startup for past 4 years. Ours is a very small team, I handled all the front end needs…