https://shauryakalia.com Staff Software Engineer at Harness.io. I build product experiences end-to-end — from system design to production — with JavaScript & TypeScript. en Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://shauryakalia.com/articles/what-fired-useEffect https://shauryakalia.com/articles/what-fired-useEffect Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Tech Developing in React brings its set of challenges, especially when dealing with side effects in functional components. React’s useEffect hook is a powerful tool but it can sometimes be a mystery figuring out which dependency change triggered a particular effect https://shauryakalia.com/articles/jest-spy-exported-func https://shauryakalia.com/articles/jest-spy-exported-func Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Tech The spyOn utility in Jest is incredibly versatile, enabling you to monitor, track, and even replace the behaviour of functions. However, applying this to a named export from a module can be a bit tricky due to the specific parameters required by spyOn https://shauryakalia.com/articles/useCallback-vs-useMemo https://shauryakalia.com/articles/useCallback-vs-useMemo Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Tech In the expansive ecosystem of React, hooks play a pivotal role in crafting functional components and managing their state and side effects. Among these hooks, useCallback and useMemo stand out for their ability to optimize performance, albeit serving distinct purposes. https://shauryakalia.com/articles/youre-about-to-make-a-terrible-mistake https://shauryakalia.com/articles/youre-about-to-make-a-terrible-mistake Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT Books Whether you're making business decisions, investing, hiring, or planning your career, your biggest enemy often isn't a lack of information. It's the biases hidden inside your own thinking. https://shauryakalia.com/articles/100M-leads https://shauryakalia.com/articles/100M-leads Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Books How do you consistently get more people interested in what you sell?Most businesses don't have a product problem but an attention problem. You can't sell to people who don't know you exist ! https://shauryakalia.com/articles/principles https://shauryakalia.com/articles/principles Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT Books Think for yourself to decide: What you want and What is true, then What you should do to achieve what you want in the light of what is true. https://shauryakalia.com/articles/useState-lazy-init https://shauryakalia.com/articles/useState-lazy-init Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT Tech Whenever you need to set the initial value of the state from a function that returns a value (see below), the function will get called at every re-render even though we only need it during the initial render https://shauryakalia.com/articles/deep-work https://shauryakalia.com/articles/deep-work Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT Books High-quality work is a function of time spent and intensity of focus https://shauryakalia.com/articles/man-s-search-for-meaning https://shauryakalia.com/articles/man-s-search-for-meaning Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT Books What is my "why"—and would it be strong enough to carry me through my hardest "how"? https://shauryakalia.com/articles/zero-to-one https://shauryakalia.com/articles/zero-to-one Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT Books What important truth do very few people agree with you on? https://shauryakalia.com/articles/atomic-habits https://shauryakalia.com/articles/atomic-habits Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Books An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones https://shauryakalia.com/articles/factfulness https://shauryakalia.com/articles/factfulness Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT Books Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think https://shauryakalia.com/articles/til-git-worktree https://shauryakalia.com/articles/til-git-worktree Sat, 11 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Tech A git repository can support multiple working trees, allowing you to check out more than one branch at a time. With git worktree you can add a new working tree that is associated with the repository, along with additional metadata. https://shauryakalia.com/articles/til-generator-functions https://shauryakalia.com/articles/til-generator-functions Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT Tech General JavaScript functions can’t be interrupted in the middle of a function execution, once the function is invoked until function execution completes. When we want to execute functions which can be interrupted or which can execute after a while. https://shauryakalia.com/articles/til-es-modules-in-browser https://shauryakalia.com/articles/til-es-modules-in-browser Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT Tech All you need is type = module on the script element, and the browser will treat the inline or external script as an ECMAScript module. I am sharing some few browser-specific things I'd learned while getting my hands dirty.