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What we will get in React 17?
As days go by I get more and more excited about what the React core team is coming up with. I thought I would share the update with fellow devs and share this excitement with all of you: React 16 was about new apis and native components (like hooks, error boundaries and fragments). This time…
Storyshots – a powerful side of Storybook to Visual Test React Components
At a consumer-oriented business like Shaadi.com, we like to maintain discipline around our React components, the way they look, feel and behave in the real world for our customers. The benefits of writing functional tests with 90–100% code coverage have now become obvious to us. But I felt functional tests were still not answering an…
React and Finite State Machines
Finite state machines, generally speaking, are a computation model used to describe a system in terms of the transitions between it’s states. They make it possible to is really easy to visualize your computational model as a graph and make sure that your application isn’t left with unhandled cases or illegal states. Warning: Read the wikipedia page on Finite…
Designing with expectations, not implementations
If you heard about test driven development (TDD) and wanted to get started somewhere then this is for you. This post represents a summary of the experience I got through implementing TDD as part of our development process at Shaadi. 2 Things to ask yourself before going through this test process When should I write…
Journey from Screen to Screen
You might have seen posts on the internet titled “Only 90s kid will understand”. And you might think that that kind of nostalgia might make sense to only 90s kids. I am talking about stuff like Tape-Recorders, VCRs, Pepsi etc. Well this kind of emotional connect that we have to forgotten artifacts stuff isn’t just limited to…
I was not ready to TDD
It’s been more than 13 years I’ve spent writing software as an engineer. And I had always felt intimidated by the thought of writing tests before I wrote code that made those tests pass. When I joined the React team at shaadi.com, everyone was already writing tests. But nobody was writing tests first. So I…
Keeping an 👁 on Web Performance
90% of our users are mobile and I am sure yours are too. They carry around your business in their pockets and we carry their hopes and dreams 🙂 Now, as many as 85% these users are using low-end mobile devices This represents a new reality for me and my team working here at shaadi.com….
Getting Emotional with React
SO WHAT IS IT ? 🙄 🙄 🙄 Emotion is a library made for writing CSS styles with JavaScript. It allows you to style apps quickly with string or object styles. The most amazing thing about this library – other than it’s size and performance – is the flexibility of use. It supports strings, objects and…
How to analyze your sites speed and make it faster?
Today, our users have no patience for websites with poor screen load speeds. They just naturally expect the pages they visit to load fast and run smooth. Your web pages need to not only load quickly, but also run well; that means scrolling, animations and interactions should be silky smooth. Industry case studies have also proven the fact that high-performing sites engage and…
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