Prashant Sani

Thoughts on Leadership & Culture

A culture of excellence, mentorship and rethinking our leadership style can shape up a teach team to embrace its true potential. This post covers some of my honest thoughts on leadership and how we can lead the team with empathy and expertise.

Featured

Reflecting on 2023: My journey as a Frontend Dev

In 2023, I joined Publicis Sapient as a Lead Experience Engineer. I coordinated, managed and lead a frontend team. This post shares my growth journey in 2023 as a frontend developer.

Front-end Development

React to React Native

Join my journey into exploring the world of React Native as a React JS developer. This post covers some basic quick start guide and free resources to quickly get started with Mobile Development using JavaScript, React and web technologies.

Annual Year Review Featured

2020,2021: Years in Review

The last two years were nothing less than a rollercoaster ride! From joyful and rewarding highs to challenging and exhaustingly painful lows. I must say the two twisted years brought in lots of surprises, some good, some bad. But, one thing for sure, these will be one of the most

Work

Registering a trademark in India

Two of my personal brands' logos and my wordmark (Prashant Sani) were registered in Offical Trademark Registry of India. This post gives a brief explanation of the legal process involved in registering a logo or wordmark.

Events & Conferences

JAMstack Conference 2020

An overview of JamStack Virtual conference held on 27th of May 2020. The conference focussed on building rich website interfaces using Javascript, APIs and Markup (Hence the name JAMstack).

Annual Year Review Featured

Front-end Developer Year in Review: 2019

The post reflects upon some of the skillsets learnt and some tricks on how I addressed common website front-end related code problems during 2019.

Annual Year Review

2018: Year in Review

Annual year-in-a-review article sharing the professional, mental and spiritual learnings acquired during 2018.

Events & Conferences

Freelancing 101

Transcript for a conference talk presented on freelancing.

Work

Thank you, Purepoint!

The post follows my learnings as a front-end developer working at Purepoint between November 2017 & August 2018.

Work

2017: A year in review

A year in review article for 2017, sharing my learnings as a front-end developer

Book Review Featured

Smashing Book 5 - Real-Life Responsive Web Design : Book Review

One of the first websites that I recommend to every novice front-end developer is Smashing Magazine. The website releases a series of books by the name "Smashing Book" and this post reviews the most recent edition, "Smashing Book 5". The theme of the book revolves around making well crafted responsive

Design

An introduction to GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform)

A short introduction to Greensock Animation library.

Book Review

CommitStrip - Rise of the Coders: Review

CommitStrip released a comic book based on the lives of developers, coders and programmers. The hardcover book skill-fully portrays their triumphs, failures, strokes of genius and the absurdities of coders with a stroke of sarcasm and humour.

Events & Conferences

Google Cloud Platform OnBoarding Training Conference, Mumbai 2017

I attended Google's Cloud Platform's onboarding training event yesterday at Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai. This article highlights some of the learnings in brief. Google Cloud Platform enables developers to build, test and deploy applications (and websites) on Google's infrastructure. The platform offers a suite of application services, to chose from,

Front-end Development Featured

How I made an Interactive, Scroll-Animations website load in less than 3 seconds!

tag. This technique is quite similar to one that involves calling JavaScript files at the end of the page,

Book Review

Lagom Magazine: Review

This holiday season, I bring you the review of "Lagom", a lifestyle magazine that celebrates & shares personal stories and motivations behind the lives of those creative professionals who strive to achieve a balance between work and play. The theme of the magazine is derived from its name, "Lagom" which is

Design

Smashing Magazine's Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering: Book Review

Heydon Pickering is a well-known web accessibility expert & recently he published a book with Smashing Magazine by the name "Inclusive Design Patterns". People accessing web have different abilities & needs, use different tools to access the content on websites. The book looks at patterns that enhance the accessibility of our Interfaces

Book Review

Bookmarks, Book Lover's Best Pals!

As the festival of Diwali is here, we clean and give away the things we don't require. While cleaning up my bookshelf, I realized that I had collected so many bookmarks over the years, I could publish an entire post on it. Being a voracious book lover, I have made

Events & Conferences

My experience at JSFoo & Meta Refresh 2016

Last Month, I attended JSFoo and Meta Refresh conferences held on 15, 16 and 17 of September. They are India's premier JavaScript and Web-design conferences respectively. At JSFoo, they covered topics pertaining to JavaScript performance. Meta Refresh covered topics for creating rich web experiences over mobile, wearable, and the desktop.

Design

Hegarty On Creativity: Book Review

On my way to Bangalore last month, I brought the book "Hegarty On Creativity" to read during my flight. I managed to finish half of it and finished the second half during the journey back. There are no rules to creativity. Yet, there are many people who earn their living

Book Review

Typographic Magazine: 8 Faces

Web Designer Elliot Jay Stocks published a series of typographic magazines named "8 Faces". Each issue covers interviews from 8 renounced designers on their 8 favourite fonts. Being a type lover myself, I am a proud owner of 2 issues of the book, 6 & 8. Since the book was run

Book Review

"Practical SVG" by Chris Coyer : Book Review

Chris Coyer, a very respectable name in the web development community, released a book, "Practical SVG" last month. Considering his excellent work on CSS Tricks & Codepen, the decision to buy this book was a no-brainer. It starts with basics of SVGs and design tools that facilitate exporting SVGs. The book

Book Review

Book Review : "CSS Secrets" by Lea Verou

(tldr; If you are a Front End Web Developer, BUY THE BOOK 😀 ) Last year, Lea Verou, acclaimed front-end developer, released one of the most anticipated books, "CSS Secrets". It received so much love from Web Development/Design community that it quickly went "out of stock" in most of the stores.

Front-end Development

Shifting SPIDer from WordPress to a Ghost Blog

Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions are my own. As of now, I have never been involved professionally with Ghost or Wordpress Team. It's been almost three months since this blog has been migrated to Ghost. Previously, it was managed with WordPress which had been the "De-Facto standard" for maintaining self