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React Virtual DOM Explained: How It Works Under the Hood

May 8 · 7 min read · Introduction If you've ever built something with vanilla JavaScript and had to update the UI frequently, you already know the pain. You call document.getElementById, change some text, update a class,

Behind the Root: Linux Filesystem Demystified

Apr 22 · 18 min read · Introduction If you've ever installed and tried out Linux after seeing a cool hacking sequence in a sci-fi movie, you know that opening it feels like stepping into a strange city with many roads named

Understanding this in JavaScript

Apr 15 · 4 min read · Introduction Most JavaScript confusion around this comes from one wrong assumption: that this depends on where a function is defined. It doesn't. It depends on who called the function. That one shift

Map and Set in JavaScript: A Practical Guide

Apr 9 · 6 min read · Introduction JavaScript gives you objects and arrays out of the box, and for a long time those two were the default answer to almost every data storage problem. Objects for key-value pairs, arrays for

Destructuring in JavaScript: Write Less, Read More

Apr 9 · 5 min read · Introduction Most JavaScript codebases are full of code like this: const user = { name: "Sara", age: 28, city: "Mumbai" }; const name = user.name; const age = user.age; const city = user.city; Three