When we develop a REST API, we have a set of HTTP methods that we can choose. An important thing to understand is that HTTP methods are, to a large extent, indicators of actions. Therefore, it is our job to make them work properly. In theory, not much stops us, for example, from deleting entities with […]
Mongoose does quite a bit of heavy-lifting for us. It is immensely useful, but not necessary in every case. In this article, we explore the Mongoose documents more and learn what we can achieve by giving up their benefits. Mongoose Document In the second part of this series, we’ve created our first models. They allow […]
TypeScript works in a way that automates a lot of the work for us. We don’t have to write types every time, because the compiler works hard to derive them from the context. In this article, we look into more complex cases that involve the infer keyword and const assertions. The basics of type inference First, let’s look […]
Fetching resources is a bread and butter of the frontend development. When doing so, we might encounter a set of issues related to race conditions. In this article, we identify them and provide a solution. Defining a race condition The term “race condition” dates back to as far as 1954. We use it in the field […]
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Previously, we’ve discussed the basics of TypeScript Generics. This time, we take them to a higher level. In this article, we learn about index types. To do so, we also explore union types, the keyof keyword, and string literal types. Today we also learn mapped types and use them with conditional types. Index types Generics are very useful in many situations. […]
Throughout this series, we’ve created some schemas and models for documents. We’ve also established ways to define relationships between them. We sometimes find ourselves needing many different properties in our documents. They sometimes overlap each other, and we might want to avoid duplicating the data in the database. Also, we might want to avoid two-way […]
The SOLID principles were defined quite some time ago and are still relatable. Their goal is to make our software easier to understand, read, and extend. We accredit this concept to Robert C. Martin from his paper from the year 2000. The actual SOLID acronym was defined later, though. In this article, we go through all […]
When implementing TypeScript in our projects, we strive to write the best typings we can. We might often feel like using the any type defeats the purpose of TypeScript, and rightfully so. There are also some other types worth knowing, and we might find them useful when trying not to use any, like the unknown. In this article, we […]