Survival Guide for Software Developers — Introduction When I started working as a software developer, I was excited to dive immediately into coding and create innovative solutions. As I settled into my new job, I quickly realized that the software development process can be complex and challenging, especially when it comes to working on projects with multiple…

A comparison of default and named exports in ES6 modules — In JavaScript, the concept of modules helps to organize code, and make it reusable across different parts of an application. Prior to the introduction of ES6 (ECMAScript 6) modules, developers used various techniques such as CommonJS and AMD to achieve this goal. ES6 introduced a native way to create modules…

From choosing topics to generating articles and developing the code for the website: all the power of ChatGPT. — On a dull Sunday, Giovanni Valdata and I decided to get in touch to experiment with the capabilities of ChatGPT. The result? An online blog about digital tools. Everything was created in about one hour. If you do not know what ChatGPT is, let it present itself:

What is memoization and when you should use it — What is Memoization The concept of memoization was introduced by Donald Michie and K.B. Bennett in 1965, who described it as “the art of storing values calculated earlier so that they can be looked up quickly later.” Memoization in JavaScript is in fact a technique for optimizing the performance of applications by storing…

5 ways of getting data from API in React (with examples) — In this article, I will show you five different ways of getting data from API in React: Fetch API Async-await syntax Axios library Custom hooks (useFetch) React Query library In the examples, we will use a random data generator. The API endpoint is the following: https://random-data-api.com/api/food/random_food, …

Boost your productivity and simplify your coding with these shortcuts in Visual Studio Code. As programmers, we spend most of our day in front of a computer, and most of that time is spent in our favorite code editor. By knowing the appropriate keyboard shortcuts for each situation you’ll save…

Useful but unpopular HTML tags — I’ve heard the phrase “HTML is simple” so many times, but while I can agree that it is simpler to learn than other programming languages, you should not take it for granted. HTML is a strong markup language that can be used to structure our online applications and deliver significant…

Major differences, advantages, and disadvantages. — While the Web is nowadays associated with billion-dollar companies like Facebook and Google, it started out very simply. Early websites were static and elementary with only text and images, displaying the same content to every user. Since the Web 2.0 era, we started to see more and more dynamic websites…

In this article, we will take a closer look at these functions and some related code examples. — In JavaScript, there are three popular methods that we usually use to perform data transformation: map, filter, and reduce. In this article, we will take a closer look at these functions and some related code examples. .map ( ) The map() method takes an array, loops over that, and in each iteration, it…