What is Docusaurus​

A react based static site generator which is modern and developed at facebook. Has rss generator, dark theme, navbar and other important parts of a website built in. Ideal for documentation websites and blogs. Has no support for backend integration.

Most useful parts​

Docusaurus has 3 important parts

• documents - useful to show online handbooks
• blog - chronological sequence of articles
• pages - standalone parts of the website

The hard parts​

• Too many options for authoring content. md, mdx & react.
• preset classic has lot of bundled plugins, afraid of stepping out of classic preset.
• swizzle themes to modify react components of the website.

Have to tried to set focus on an element in react? I have done it multiple times for accessibility reasons. I have uncovered an edge case in setting focus and the page would scroll to the element where the focus was set.

Thoughtworks tech radar is a reputed tech journal available free of cost for subscribers. The content is related to 4 broad categories related to software development. The candidates/techniques are further categorized for easy judgment and use. Here are my notes from episode #26 of tech radar.

Some tech firms ask for references but hardly check/give them a call. In others, the recruitment team is asssigned the task of checking the candidate performance and other details, there are 2 parts of the reference check discussion. We can call it Validation and Verification. Here are the 5 questions that can be used for reference check discussions.

Came across remix.run which is a fullstack typescript based framework. Decided to give it a try. Here is how the day 1 of remix went by. Spoiler alert: It was bumpy.

Hundreds of React tutorials and videos directly start with a custom hook. Here is my experience, where I had to write a custom react hook for the first time. Sharing the rationale and logic behind the first custom react hook.

The best thing about React props is the ability to send different data structures from parent to child without any code configuration like @input etc. But why do we need an extra construct React.forwardRef for passing ref? let us find out.

To do the imperceptible, we need inspiration. For a novice, the internet is flooded with boot camps, how-to videos, etc. But as we become mid-level developers, we need a different level of education which is hard to find and even harder to derive value out of it.