A JavaScript Developer's Guide to Go
A guide for JavaScript developers learning Go through direct comparisons of fundamental concepts between both languages.
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Welcome to Prateek's digital home 🏡
Prateek is a FullStack Engineer currently building Fold. He loves building stuff from scratch and writing about what he learns along the way, usually related to Go, JavaScript, React, and TypeScript. Apart from his unconditional love for technology, he relaxes with music, movies and video games.
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 , #558 and #739 ), Golang Weekly , Bytes by ui.dev , React Status , This Week in React and React Digest . Here are some of the posts he has written recently.
Next.js 13 vs Remix: An In-depth case study
A detailed comparison of the features Next.js 13 and Remix Run by building a Twitter Clone app in both frameworks.
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
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.
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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.
noCap
A Turing-complete esoteric interpreted programming language built in Go.
Scrroll In
A chrome extension that lets you save multiple scroll positions on a webpage.
Twitter Clone
Two implementations of the core features of Twitter built using React Server Components with Next.js and Remix.
Scriptified
A weekly newsletter with insightful tips, tools and resources on React and JavaScript. Built with Next.js and TailwindCSS.
Every Arcane Frame
A Twitter bot that tweets a random frame from the Netflix show Arcane every hour, via GitHub actions cron jobs.
Game of life
An interactive game demonstrating and explaining John Conway's Game of Life. Also built with Next.js and TailwindCSS.
Open Source
Prateek đź’ž Open source, apart from making all of his projects fully open sourced he also like to contribute to other projects that he actively uses. He currently maintains Devfolio's react-otp-input which has over 100k weekly downloads and has also contributed to react-query , brahmosjs , daily.dev , and many others.
Get in Touch
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