Check if a PWA is opened as a standalone app or not

October 11, 2021 — When working with Progressive Web Apps (PWA), there might be a case when you only want to show certain things when the website is in standalone mode.

Dry running Composer update without actually updating dependencies

October 5, 2021 — It would always be a good idea to cross-verify/confirm a destructive action before you actually perform it. For instance, while giving users the ability to delete something important, let’s say the user account, it’s a good idea to present them a confirmation popup before he/she deletes the account permanently.

Simple blinking cursor animation using CSS

October 1, 2021 — The other day I was feeling a little nerdy (like all the cool kids) and so, I attempted to add this cool-looking blinking cursor at the end of my blog’s tagline like so.

Always destructure your component props in React.js

September 28, 2021 — While working with React.js components, there are two ways using which you can retrieve/access the component props.

Custom thumbnails for native video element in HTML

September 27, 2021 — The <video> is an HTML element that can be used to embed a media player on a page that can a variety of video formats. Here’s how a simple video embed with an external video source would look like.

Retrieve request URL without specific query parameters in Laravel

September 24, 2021 — When you have a request in hand and if the URL is having a query string with different parameters, the easiest way to get the entire URL with the query string is using the fullUrl() method like so.

Prevent object extension — Object.freeze() vs Object.seal() vs Object.preventExtensions()

September 20, 2021 — When it comes to prevention of modification/updation of an object in JavaScript, there are few things that you can do.

Abort a fetch request manually in JavaScript

September 17, 2021 — The Fetch API, as you might know, is a modern replacement of the good old XHRHttpRequest (popularly known as Ajax) that gives nicer developer experience (DX) by giving a promise based implementation.

How to get class instance without a constructor in PHP

September 13, 2021 — Have you ever stumbled upon a situation in which you need an instance of a class to create its object but with one condition and that is there is no constructor declared for that class?

Graceful error handling using Error Boundaries in React.js

September 12, 2021 — Working with React.js, it’s a common thing you would see where if something goes wrong, (for instance, a JavaScript error), the entire React.js app would crash instantly and renders blank.

Amit Merchant