A quick summary — Questions on web browsers are frequently asked in interviews. For example, the process of loading a webpage in a browser from the moment a URL is entered is one of the most asked interview questions. Here, let’s talk specifically about how javascript (JS) runs. JS is a client-side scripting language…

Reduce, Filter, Includes, Map, ForEach — One of the fundamental things we do in frontend development is to fetch the data from an API, do some operations or check for something in it and then display it on the UI. This data is generally read as a JSON or an array of JSON. Some of the…

Reflecting on the last year and things to do ahead — 2021 was a lot of things to a lot of people. For me, it was a long 12 months of slogging from home to get things done. My year was like an inverted bell curve. It started with high spirits. Everything seemed to be going right but then from mid-march…

Fundamentals of web sockets explored in 7 mins — Communication between clients and servers is part and parcel of the internet. Web sockets are a protocol developed to facilitate the same. They enable us to do two-way contact between a client (or multiple clients) and a server. You can think of your web browser as a client, for example…

Explained in 4 mins 💡 — What really happens when you type medium.com into the web browser and press enter? How is the website loading all the information and images? Let’s find out. I will explain this by telling you a small story. The title of this story is Browser-Man 🦸: Across the Internet. One day…

Solutions in Python — 📌 The problem statement Given a string s, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters. Example: Input: s = "abcabcb" Output: 3 Explanation: The answer is "abc", with the length of 3. The solution 💡 Let’s think of a straightforward approach first as we did with the…

The good practices and thoughts to ponder — Getting referrals is a very efficient way to land an interview at any firm. Also, most firms have a referral program where the employees get a small referral bonus if the person they referred gets hired. So, it is a win-win. If you are a strong candidate for a job…

Fundamentals and some examples in python — Searching for something from a data structure is a pretty common thing. We search for files, people, posts, etc. Most websites and applications have a search bar. When it comes to problem-solving, searching for some element can be an important intermediary or actionable step. …

Python and javascript implementations for algorithms — Sorting is… well, sort of everywhere around us. In the real world, we have the sort option in a lot of applications, say sorting files based on their timestamp. The basic gist is simple- we want to arrange the items in a list in a specific order. It is generally…