State management in React is not always a trivial task. React provides powerful yet simple ways of storing state, but as an application grows, the data flow needs to be carefully thought through. This article is not about what state management tool to use, because React is a great and…

Bugs are impossible to avoid when writing software. Software systems of any kind tend to have bugs that need to be fixed on a constant basis. Therefore, as a developer, we need to build smart strategies for how to tackle them and minimize them. …

The topic of JavaScript frameworks has been debated by developers for quite some time, but I think that it’s healthy to analyze technologies and their pros and cons from time to time. The intent of this article is not to bash a widely adopted technology like React, but simply raise…

Anyone who tries to break into the industry of software engineering will face the question of which role to aim for at first. …

This is a question that almost everyone who pursues the path of software engineering might ask him/herself. It seems to me that some opinions in the community are quite biased in the sense that some engineers with degrees will advocate that college is the right way to go, while others…

The world of frontend development is rapidly growing, and the need for developers increases daily. Software projects these days are built with heavy user interfaces since the browsers are more powerful and can make applications highly interactive. At the same time, older legacy projects face the issues of having to…

In most software projects today, you tend to work in a typical Scrum fashion which includes working in time periods called sprints. …

If you’ve been following the software development community, you’ve probably come across content about “the top programming languages in 2021” and so on. Developers tend to talk about the different languages and rank them differently based on a range of factors. Usually as a junior developer, you want to keep…

Programmers know that frameworks are there to help their lives. With a framework, you can do things a lot quicker than doing it natively. Take Node.js as an example. No one writes applications by merely using native Node.js. You always add a framework on top of it like Express.js …