Let’s see how to improve the way we debug our web apps! — Since I got started with web development, I’ve been using console.log pretty much all the time to debug my applications. The reason is that I could never get used to the browser console and debugging system. Placing a breakpoint sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. …

Combining the best of both Node.js and TypeScript to create a strong and robust framework. — I’ve been using Node.js for more than 4 years now, and since the beginning, I’ve been extremely loyal to Express. But lately, after starting one project after the other, I was starting to feel that Express needed a lot of setup at first. …

I had to lead the migration from moment to date-fns, here is my experience — Some time ago, the momentJS team decided to move their library to maintenance mode, meaning that they are not going to push any new feature anymore. Only bug/security fixes. My company tries to keep up with the latest technologies and avoid a maximum the tech depts, which is why they…

Don’t let your app crash anymore! Error handling is a challenge that every single developer encounters. Frontend, backend, we’ll always end up being confronted with a fatal crash! On the backend side, handling an error is fairly straightforward. Create a couple of try/catch, wrap your code in it, and handle…

Validate your forms quickly and easily Today in this article, we are not going to talk about a Javascript version of the most missed video streaming platform. Instead, we are going to talk about form validation.

This is by far one of the most underused features of React. — React has quite a massive API. Most of it is now pretty much well known by most developers (useState, useMemo, …) but yet there are still some bits that are not much used probably for a lack of use cases. forwardRef is one of them. Existing since version 16.3.0 (2018)…

Also called Mapped Types, let’s study this design pattern — I’ve been studying advanced design patterns for Typescript lately, and one of my favorites is probably this one. Mapped types are a way with Typescript to transform the attributes of an object. You may want all of your attributes to be nullable, read-only, or even optional. …

Make sure that the data sent to your API are safe — Since the beginning of my career, there is one sentence that I kept hearing all the time, and this sentence is: Never trust the frontend The reason for this is that we have no control over what’s being sent to our API and we cannot just trust that all data…

Let’s have a look at this advanced pattern that you’ve been using without knowing — Typescript brings a lot of complexity to Javascript, and with it comes some more advanced design patterns. Design patterns are so useful to know in any programming language as it helps us to solve complex problems in a better way by following good practices. Today, we are going to talk…