Amitav Roy

As a developer the habit of reading code can do wonders to your coding ability and accelerate your speed of learning. You spend only about 1 hour coding for every 10 hours you read. And hence, the skill of reading code becomes very important. Let's understand how it helps, how it works and how you can improve it.

Newsletter is one form of content which has been quite popular. It has been the de facto for many brands and e-commerce websites to communicate with their customers. And it has also been a great way of reaching out for individuals to others who share similar interests.

Recently I decided to build a mobile app for my own consumption. I wanted to track my expenses and also have a single app which I can use to track my tasks, my habit tracker etc. And, being a developer, I thought it would be a good idea to build something on my own which solves my problem. And, that’s when I decided to start learning Fultter.

When you are working with Docker, you can not only develop but even install a fresh copy of Laravel on your system without installing PHP or Composer in your host machine. Yes, that's the philisophy of Docker and that's what I am going to demostrate you.

Effective communication depends on a lot of factors. Blogging is one medium where your skill to choose words can make a big difference. In this article, I am going to talk about one such tip which I found while doing my research. And, when I looked at validating it - I was surprised how big an impact it can make.

Recently when I looked at the PEST Meet-up videos I liked the way simplified writing tests. It also allows you to write your tests almost like plain English which is easy to read. So, I decided to get my hands dirty with this testing framework. In this article, I am going to share my experience about PEST.

Recently I was working on performance improvement on my blog post. During the Lighthouse scan I realized that I have made a silly mistake. In this article, I am going to talk you through some of the important changes that I made to my blog. And, how they had a significant impact on the performance of my blog.

Google is shifting how they index and rank content. Mobile based websites will be indexed instead of desktop because of a shift in trend of search as well. Are your ready for this change? See what are some things which you need to do to make your website mobile optimised and ready for being indexed.

In today’s fast changing market adoption to change is paramount. It doesn't matter how big a company or business is. If they are not quick to adapt to changes, then they can face disruption very soon. Microservice architecture allows companies to leverage rapid development.

Tailwind CSS framework just came out with a new version. It has a lot of few features which makes it a very strong tool for any developer. Let's look at some of those interesting new features. And, while doing that I will try to explain you how using Tailwind can really help you in your development workflow.

TypeScript has been a really trending thing when it comes to JavaScript and Node development and there are lot of reasons why. In this article, I am going let you know some good things which I have seen and experienced during development.

The image tag has been with us since the beginning of HTML. I am sure, stats can prove that it is one of the most used tag cross web. There is a famous saying that “A picture is worth a thousand word”. And the world wide web is full of images. However, not much was done to the image tag from what it was 10 years back right? According to Next JS, 50% of total bytes on the web is taken by Images only.

In search for a good framework in Node, I have been huting for quite some time now. Have worked with quite a few popular minimalistic frameworks, however I always felt I wanted something more from them. And, hence I was looking for something similar to Laravel - a framework that I love. And, then I found Adonis.

Some time back, I saw a Tweet which caught my attention – Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version 2. Now, Microsoft has been investing a lot in open source recently and Visual Studio Code is one big example of that along with GitHub. And, when I looked at two keywords in one tweet “Windows” and “Linux”, it caught my attention. After reading about the new feature WSL 2, it forced me to try out Windows as my development machine. In this article, I will try to share my experience on trying out Microsoft Windows again after using Linux and Mac for almost 4 to 5 years now as my primary development machine.

Laravel Livewire is a new package developed by Caleb Porzio which really changes the approach of how you do front end development. It is a composer package which allows you to create components in PHP which are reactive as well similar to Vue or React. The entire component code is inside PHP and blade files but you get a feeling of and SPA. Initially, everything will look very magical as you are writing only PHP code but getting JavaScript behaviour.