I know there are already 100s of articles on this, but searching for the right one is difficult, hence I am writing this for future myself to refer to. Feel free to take a reference. I was travelling on a train, doing some development shit and needed to access the…

What I thought I wanted was to send a message from the background script to the content script once the app is installed. It took me almost an hour to realise that my requirement itself was wrong. The actual requirement was to create a modal on the UI using chrome…

Ever seen this error in your console? You might have definitely seen and fixed this: ** usual Story ** The error is consistent -> you go to Google and search for the answer -> Open the first S.O. …

But why call it a Cookie? In the physical world, a cookie is something we eat…but in the computer world, a cookie is something to store information on. How does this make any sense? What is the analogy? This is what Sudip Bhandari and I were discussing a couple of…

After working with react for 5 years, this is what I feel about React. The more I see updates on React, the more I dislike it. I understand there are 100s of new libraries, but 100s of new hooks in a single library?? It’s been like 6 months since I…

The problem statement that made me dig deep into this topic and write this article is tree shaking with rc-slider. In one of my recent React project, I am taking utmost care to make sure that I let no stone unturned to achieve the best performance. …

How often do you encounter bugs in production which are impossible to reproduce locally? IDK about you, but it happens a lot to me. Viewing the script and adding a breakpoint might help us at times but what if we need to change something in that script? …

Presence of <img /> tag is one of the main reason why some site loads slow. Here are some tricks which can be used to improve the performance of the website by handling the download of image efficiently. 1. Using srcset and sizes instead of just src: When we use…

NaN is something which we use less frequently in JavaScript but still it’s worth understanding the concept. What is NaN? NaN is a property that represents Not a Number value. We get NaN when we try to do a numeric operation on something which cannot be converted to a Number. …