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Why work at a Startup and What to expect?

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Nov 5, 202010 min read

Introduction This is an article based on my experience working with startups for 4+ years. I have previously worked with enterprises and product companies, but with startups, the kind of unique experience of having both creative freedom and increased...

What is Technical Debt?

Nov 28, 20208 min read

What is Technical Debt? I would like to simply define Technical debt as the actions taken by the engineering team to expedite delivery for a piece of functionality that often needs to be refactored at a later point in time. However, there's no one si...

How to provide estimates as a Junior Developer?

Nov 13, 20207 min read

Introduction I recently interacted with a friend who had just started out as a developer and she told me that she found it really hard to provide estimates against the user stories assigned to her. We had an interesting conversation following that an...

A Detailed overview of NPM, Registry, CLI & it's related Components

Nov 2, 202015 min read

Introduction In this article, we will look at an overview of what NPM is. When we usually run 'npm install', we know that certain packages are being created inside the 'node_modules' folder. Let us look at what they mean and what role they play in or...

The React Ecosystem

Oct 30, 20208 min read

Introduction When I started learning React, there was a huge debate on whether React is a library or a framework. While I assumed React to be a framework, since, it was always compared with the likes of Vue or Angular, it is actually a JavaScript lib...

Why you should choose to learn 'React'?

Oct 27, 20206 min read

Introduction I have been working with the React library for a while now and the more I understand it, the more I'm in awe of the library. In this article, I wanted to share my thoughts on why I think React is one of the most popular JavaScript frame...