Prateek Surana

After spending five years as a JavaScript developer building both frontend and backend systems, I spent the last year transitioning to Go for server-side code. During that time I couldn't help but notice the differences between syntax, fundamentals, practices, and runtime environments between the languages and the effects they had on actual runtime performance and developer productivity. Go has also recently captured the JavaScript community's attention when Microsoft announced their official TypeScript ...

When it comes to building web applications, React has been at the forefront for a while now, and its adoption continues to grow. Among the most common approaches to building web applications with React, Next.js stands out as one of the most preferred options. Next.js has also been in the limelight since last year when they released their biggest update to the framework ever with the app router. This introduces a new routing architecture that uses nested layouts and is closely integrated with React Server...

React is a powerful UI library that provides developers with a great developer experience (DX) through its declarative approach to building user interfaces. This approach abstracts away the complexity of manipulating DOM nodes, making it easier to build UIs. However, there are times when you need to access the DOM nodes managed by React, such as when you need to focus a node or measure its size. Unfortunately, there is no built-in way to do this with React. This is where refs come in. The useRef API prov...