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Using Chokidar with Esbuild To Rebuild On Change

This month I was migrating from Webpacker to ESBuild [https://esbuild.github.io/] using JSBundling [https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails] in a client's Ruby on Rails project, since, they were using Stimulus & a couple of Javascript dependencies in the project, the migration went smoothly. However, I realised

Building Algolia Powered Search In React Native

Github Instant Search App Algolia provides in a nutshell, Search As A Service, which if you think is a pretty cool service. It takes away all the heavy lifting of building & maintaining a search infrastructure, gives you a nice API to work with and a robust monitoring to keep

Getting started with PreactJS — A Step By Step Guide

PreactJS is a fast 3kB alternative to React with the same ES6 API First, some background… PreactJS [https://preactjs.com/] is developed by Jason Miller [https://medium.com/@developit] — one of my programming heroes. The framework was developed with a goal of providing high performance, memory efficiency and close compatibility

9 Libraries To Consider For Your Next React Native Project

React Native React Native has made mobile application development process bliss for developers, there’s no doubt in that. I’ve been working on it full time since last 5 months and I couldn’t be more happier then how I’m right now. After working on bunch of React

5 React Native Open Source Projects To Learn From

> Best way to learn writing software is to read open source code — Every Senior Programmer. Reading open source code is the best and effective way to tech yourself to write better code, especially if the tool is fairly new or the standards around that tool is still evolving. ReactNative

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