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Using Create React App To Start A Project

Nov 13, 2020

Create React App is a very popular way to start a React app. Using it can make getting started much faster.

Nullish Coalescing Operator (??) In Javascript

Oct 20, 2020

The nullish coalescing operator returns the left hand side if it is not null or undefined, otherwise it returns the right hand side. This makes it different from the logical OR (||) operator which returns the right hand side if the left side is falsey. Let’s see some examples to see exactly the behavior.

Install A NPM Package Under An Alias

Jun 07, 2020

As more and more NPM packages are being released the available names of packages are dwindling. You might want to name your module something but a package you installed might be causing a naming collision. Thanks to NPM aliasing feature you can install packages under an aliased name...

Javascript Map

Mar 12, 2020

Knowing and understanding javascript data structures in programming is essential. One of those very useful data structures in javascript is a Map. A map holds key-value pairs and remembers the insertion order of those keys...

JQ Deep Dive Part Two

Nov 20, 2019

In a previous post we gave a brief introduction to JQ, a powerful and lightweight command line JSON processor. It is one of our favorite tools and is extremely powerful.