Let go of raw coding skills to understand the bigger picture — There is one expression that I particularly love: Zoom out. I love to zoom out because it allows me to see the big picture and determine my position on the whole. Without this action, I feel like I’m lacking vision and orientation, and I’m kind of lost. I don’t know…

Boost your web app’s performance by writing optimized code and using Chrome DevTools — Join 20K+ students and check my Memory Leaks 101 video course here which contains more details about JavaScript memory leaks. It’s sitting there innocently. Yet, it continues to gobble up more and more of your valuable resources. It starts to slow to a crawl, which blows up your frustration. All…

To build a unicorn company you need risk-tolerance and data — “If you aren’t willing to take that leap now, then when are you willing to?” He thinks to himself. After completing one year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he continued to interview for summer internship opportunities and received positive feedback from DeepMind, Stripe, Snapchat, and Opendoor. But now…

Ask the questions, do root cause analysis, and more — “How can I get better at solving problems? I understand JavaScript now, but I can’t really solve problems or understand any complicated JavaScript code,” asked me recently young developer on my contact list. Problem-solving is a critical element of our careers because writing great code is a creative art, and…

An exploration of change detection strategies in software engineering and data science — Note: If you prefer to watch, there is a video version available here. “The ‘new built-in' @for statement uses a new diffing algorithm and has more optimal implementation compared to *ngFor, which makes it up to 90% faster runtime for community framework benchmarks!” wrote Minko Gechev in his article “Introducing…

A case study of using overflow hidden the wrong way — Note: If you prefer to watch, there is a video version available here. In today’s post, I want to share a little adventure I had recently with CSS classes and UX. I had an Angular application, in which I could dissect a message by selecting some of the proposed fields…

Deferred loading blocks, built-in control flow, SSR optimization, and more… — The Angular team couldn’t keep it a secret any longer. They just dropped some exciting news last Monday on YouTube before releasing version 17 of the framework on November 8, 2023. In addition to features, like signals and standalone components, which were in the developer preview in previous releases, the…

Immutability in Programming with Case Study — If you prefer to watch, there is a video version available here. A few months ago, I refactored an Angular application in order to extract the breadcrumb feature into a reusable component, which I could use with other applications. However, I encountered a problem when I tried to use the…

#7 Unleash your transferable skills — If you prefer to watch, there is a video version available here. Last July, a computer science student dropped me a message with a question that really got my wheels turning: “If you could go back in time and kickstart your career all over again, what mistakes you wish you…