Aphinya is a skilled tech writer with field experience in software development, agile, and fullstack JavaScript. She is a dev advocate and community builder, helping others navigate their dev journey.
Have you ever wondered how those fancy expanding search boxes or forms are done? While it looks cool and feels like it could be complicated to code, it turns out to be quite simple. All you need is a few lines of HTML, a good dash of CSS, and two...
Throughout my career as a developer, I’ve exhibited varying degrees of hubris — the good bulk of it at the beginning of my journey. I was the cocky junior dev, filled with over-confidence, and somewhat overly zealous advocation of things I thought I understood. It happens to all of us...
Not everything is an object. When it comes to functional programming, it’s more to do with the processes that get you from point A to point B than how data and groups of business logic are structured. JavaScript is a language that’s prone to imperative patterns because of...
The idea of recursion is a funny one to get your head around. On the surface and in JavaScript, recursion is described as a pattern where functions call into itself. But does this actually mean? In diagramic form, it looks something like this: But that doesn’t really help explain...
Ideas are the building blocks of code. They give you the scaffold of how to think, how to create, and how to best write your code. Without it, you’ll be coding yourself into a corner in no time. Lack of knowledge and awareness is also how code smell starts....
The thing with frontend frameworks and libraries is that you’ve got a scaffold to work against. There are set rules that you have to follow to make things work. However, the front end by itself isn’t that useful. It might look good, but functionality-wise, it’s an isolated...
