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Dry running Composer update without actually updating dependencies

October 5, 2021 — It would always be a good idea to cross-verify/confirm a destructive action before you actually perform it. For instance, while giving users the ability to delete something important, let’s say the user account, it’s a good idea to present them a confirmation popup before he/she deletes the account permanently.

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Simple blinking cursor animation using CSS

October 1, 2021 — The other day I was feeling a little nerdy (like all the cool kids) and so, I attempted to add this cool-looking blinking cursor at the end of my blog’s tagline like so.

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Always destructure your component props in React.js

September 28, 2021 — While working with React.js components, there are two ways using which you can retrieve/access the component props.

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Custom thumbnails for native video element in HTML

September 27, 2021 — The <video> is an HTML element that can be used to embed a media player on a page that can a variety of video formats. Here’s how a simple video embed with an external video source would look like.

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Retrieve request URL without specific query parameters in Laravel

September 24, 2021 — When you have a request in hand and if the URL is having a query string with different parameters, the easiest way to get the entire URL with the query string is using the fullUrl() method like so.

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Prevent object extension — Object.freeze() vs Object.seal() vs Object.preventExtensions()

September 20, 2021 — When it comes to prevention of modification/updation of an object in JavaScript, there are few things that you can do.

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Abort a fetch request manually in JavaScript

September 17, 2021 — The Fetch API, as you might know, is a modern replacement of the good old XHRHttpRequest (popularly known as Ajax) that gives nicer developer experience (DX) by giving a promise based implementation.

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How to get class instance without a constructor in PHP

September 13, 2021 — Have you ever stumbled upon a situation in which you need an instance of a class to create its object but with one condition and that is there is no constructor declared for that class?

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Graceful error handling using Error Boundaries in React.js

September 12, 2021 — Working with React.js, it’s a common thing you would see where if something goes wrong, (for instance, a JavaScript error), the entire React.js app would crash instantly and renders blank.

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Initialize objects right into the constructor parameters in PHP 8.1

September 11, 2021 — With the introduction of PHP 8, the language now allows us to declare the class properties right into the constructor parameters. This is called constructor property promotion.

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