Fine-tuning refs with useImperativeHandle
Understand what refs in React are, how you can use them to manipulate DOM nodes and how you can customize the exposed refs with useImperativeHandle
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Prateek is a Frontend Engineer currently building Devfolio. He loves creating awesome stuff and writing things he learns along the way, usually about JavaScript, React, and TypeScript. Apart from his unconditional love for technology he enjoys watching Marvel movies and playing quirky games on his phone.
Projects
Although Prateek has worked on a bunch of projects but these are some that he is really proud of and/or is actively maintaining.
Scriptified
A weekly newsletter with insightful tips, tools and resources on React and JavaScript. Built with Next.js and TailwindCSS.
Scrroll In
A chrome extension that lets you save multiple scroll positions on a webpage and allow you to access them whenever you come back to the page.
Game of life
An interactive game demonstrating and explaining John Conway's Game of Life. Also built with Next.js and TailwindCSS.
Smart Apart
An android app that provides you a daily curated feed in various categories. This is the project with which Prateek started his development journey.
Blog
Prateek has contributed to various publications such as LogRocket, Hackernoon, and Better Programming in the past. His work has been featured in numerous React and JavaScript newsletters including JavaScript Weekly ( #543 and #558 ), Bytes by ui.dev , React Status , This Week in React and React Digest . Here are some of the posts he has written recently.
The future of rendering in React
Understand what are the problems with current rendering patterns in React, and how the new rendering patterns introduced with React 18 and future versions of React aim to solve them.
Simplify immutable data structures in useReducer with Immer
Learn how you can simplify deeply nested state updates when using useReducer with Immer.
How JavaScript Classes work under the hood
Learn what prototypes are in JavaScript, what are they used for, what prototype chaining is and how do JavaScript classes work under the hood with these concepts.
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Open Source
Prateek đź’ž Open source, apart from making all his projects fully open sourced he also like to contribute to other projects that he actively uses. He has so far contributed to react-query , daily.dev , brahmosjs and many others.
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