58 hours of tireless coding and one brilliant hack! — The beginning It was a normal day when one of my friends(a super talented programmer) approached me to participate in this hackathon. By this, I mean DevFest 2.0. It is a week-long, completely online technical fest organized by DevSoc, Developers’ Society, BITS Pilani, Goa campus. After 2 days of going through Quora…

This article guides you through the process of making your portfolio website by using the template I created for you. — I recently created my portfolio website and during the process I realized, why not make it available for everyone! Making a Portfolio website from scratch can be a tedious process. This repository solves that problem. How? Well, it is an easy-to-use portfolio template! You can use it by following a…

What is metadata and why is it important? Let's find out! — This blog will be going over the key aspects of metadata, meta tags, how it can help you push your site up on google search, and more… What is metadata? Metadata is simple snippets of text and image content that provide a summary of the webpage. This data generally shows up when somebody…

Wait, what? Did you just say designing is as important as coding? — Yes, it is. Designing is as important as coding. First off, let’s just agree on the fact that not every programmer is blessed with the power of design thinking. Not all of us can do it okay!

Explaining REST APIs with visuals and details. — REST API is a word you might've heard so many times if you are a programmer, more specifically a web developer. But, what exactly is it? We are going to be looking at fundamental concepts of a REST API in this blog. What is an API? An application program interface (API) is a set…

Recording contact form responses on your website the easy way! — We often find contact forms on portfolio or company websites. They serve as a medium between the company and society. How cool would it be if we could link the form on our website to google forms and get the data in a dynamically updating spreadsheet? This blog takes you…

A detailed overview of all 15 CSS units. — Did you know there are 15 CSS units in total? Working with such a variety of options to choose from can be challenging especially if you are a beginner and want to explore everything that web-dev has to offer. In this blog, we are going to be looking at each…

Productivity app with ReactJS andChartsJS — Mini Project for Beginners in 10 easy steps. — This article is a step-by-step guide for making a mini project in ReactJS covering concepts of function-based components, hooks, local storage, charts.js, and other npm libraries. Let's dive right into it! Also, You can check my code here if you get stuck anywhere. Step 1 : Create React App Let's start by creating our react app…