I moved into a design tech team that takes care of enterprise design language. It's completely a front-end job. It has been more than 90 days since I moved into this job and here is my learning experiences. Here are my top 10 learning experiences from my new job role as "Lead design technologist".
Let us say you drop a cheque at the local bank, it goes through several stages and finally, you get your money. Similarly in JavaScript, the working committee throws in an idea that goes through several stages before it becomes a language feature. Let's find out more.
Staying up to date with relevant updates from the frontend community is an art rather than a science. I am a big fan of the Feedly app which is an awesome RSS feed reader. My blog updates can be subscribed to on Feedly for updates. Analyzing the data points, I am in favor of Twitter over subscribing to blogs for keeping you updated on the tools, libraries, processes, and APIs in the frontend.
I am a Javascript fanboy. With a change in work assignment, I started with Typescript, and it's great. There were quite some aha moments, and I am hooked. I would still keep up with Javascript but code in Typescript irrespective of the framework.
If your NPM package is composed of self Javascript code, then code rewrite or optimization is the way to go. If your npm package is composed of other JS libs which would also be a dependency of the host application, then we have some good news. Have you thought of using peer dependencies?
GET and POST are the two commonly used HTTP methods. The REST API calls can return a variety of response data types like text, array buffer, blob, document, and JSON. Let us discuss the lesser-known response datatypes in this article.
After many years, I decided to keep up with the developments at Angular. The dev setup was to run angular CLI but it won't work. Let's find out why
Single-page applications are the opposite of multi-page applications. Is that not explanatory enough? Let us dig deeper.