A look at rate limiting and different algorithms for implementing rate limiting in your application design — Rate limiting is a technique used to counter over usage of computer resources such as bandwidth or CPU. It restricts what an event can do within a given time range or window. Rate limiting can be implemented to ensure stability and availability of resources. In this article, you will learn

Sharing what I have learnt and perspective from having code reviews — Code review is a crucial part of every software development process. It involves having one or more team members review the code written by another team member to ensure that it is of high quality, follows coding standards, and is free of bugs. Having had several code review in almost…

Useful tip to access methods and functions from child components — When building Vuejs applications, you may need to access child component properties from an outside component. This may be in scenarios where the need to emit events is unnecessary. Accessing components with refs is possible due to the open nature of components in Vuejs2. While in Vuejs 3 components are…

Introduction to props in Vuejs 3 with Composition API — What are props in Vue.js? Props, meaning properties, are used to pass down information from one component to another usually from parent to child components in a unidirectional manner. This means props cannot be passed from child to parent components. In cases where you need to pass data from child…

Introduction to state management with Pinia — Why State Management State management involves implementing a design pattern in our application. It ensures our state data is organised into one central unit that we can reuse, and mutate synchronously without affecting other active data states. Consider a scenario where have an application that manipulates and renders some data to the Frontend…

Easily switch to Composition API — The Composition API was introduced in Vue 3 and is the new recommended pattern for developing applications in Vuejs 3. We can still use Options and Composition API’s together and enjoy the beauty of both patterns. If you have been using Vuejs for quite a while now, high chance you…

Routing with Vue Router 4 : A Complete Guide — Vuejs 3 comes bundled with some new and amazing features. Some of these features include but are not limited to: optimizations, improved TypeScript support, global mounting, migration to the new composition-API among others. In this article, we are going to explore vue-router 4 which is the official and latest library…

Write better commit messages with conventional commits workflow — Implementing a better way of improving and writing good commit messages can save a development team lots of time and effort as opposed to having none. Commit messages are everyday tea for any software developer in the modern day. …

Improve your website’s SEO by adding a sitemap 🎉 — Improving your website’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is very critical especially when you want to improve your rankings in search engine results. Generating a sitemap of your websites is useful in making it easier for web crawlers (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo) to understand your website. …