Front-end Development

Advice for Junior Developers: 2024 and beyond

After 7 years of questions about my portfolio site, I'm sharing how I built it (HTML/CSS/JS/GSAP) and offering a comprehensive guide for aspiring developers in 2024. From learning paths to tech stacks, open source contributions to interview prep—everything you need to kickstart your web dev career.

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.

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,

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

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.

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

Events & Conferences

Google Mobile Summit 2015

Last Month I had been in Bangalore for "JSFOO". Since I had a extra Monday to kill,I thought of attending "Google For Mobile” Event. Here are some of the most interesting Ideas,thoughts and insights form the event shared through some of my tweets. At @googleindia #Google for #Mobile

Book Review

Awwwards – book – the best 365 websites – 2013 : An Visual Review

The Book,released in early 2014 contains a compilation of all the websites that had been awarded as "Site of Day" during the year 2013 by Awwwards, a showcase website.The book also contains 7 project case studies. The book is complemented with an interactive app with augmented reality, offering

Book Review

Book Review : Above the fold

If there could be “One book to rule them all” for novice Web designers, it would be “Above The Fold“. This book goes through every subject/niche of designing websites : from Designing itself to topics like Project Planning; Marketing, SEO, creation of Sitemap, Wireframes, Prototypes,etc. (Illustrative chart on History

Front-end Development

Introducing piggyBank.JS

Recently at Patkar Institute, Our Sir gave us an assignment to create a Piggy Bank in JavaScript. I started working on the same and thought to release it as a open source code so that the awesome front end team and collaburate and make an already awesome code more awesome!

Design

Responsive Images

All about Responsive Images

Book Review

Head First Wordpress Review

WordPress is by far, the best blogging platform ever. Being Free and Open source, it cherishes the largest theme & plug-in collection than any other blogging platforms. Head First WordPress is* the book* to get you acquainted with basics of WordPress Blogging. The book starts with explaining the two ways of

Book Review

Head First HTML (with CSS and xHTML) Book Review

Are you a Graphic Designer who knows the dangers of automated code? Or you are a beginner level Front End developer, who thoroughly gets confused with HTML tags and CSS? In any case this is the perfect book for you to start coding HTML & CSS. If you love reading books

Book Review

Book Review : JavaScript 24 hour trainer

Published in December 2010, JavaScript 24 hour trainer is a beginner to mid level JavaScript book written by Net Tuts+ Author, Jeremy McPeak. The whole book is divided in in 3 sections: – 1. Introduction to JavaScript 2. Programming the Browser 3. Handling Errors ,Debugging and Best Practices At first, 43

Front-end Development

HTML5 Musical Instruments

What if some day scientists invent Time Machine? I would love to travel in Pre-HTML5 era, probably somewhere in 2000 or so and Show all of the web community, the powers of JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3. I m pretty sure they will be amazed :) Nobody could have ever imagined the capabilities