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Vamsi Rao

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Developer learning to build good products 💻. Love playing Tennis 🎾 and Indie Hacking 🛠. Reach out to me on my twitter dm 💬 if you want to chat.

What is cache and common ways of using it?

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Sep 11, 20203 min read 1.8K views

Let me set the context with this quote There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. ~ Phil Karlton Before we start talking about Cache Invalidation, let's see what cache actually is. Wikipedia says cache...

What is cache and common ways of using it?

Serving a dynamic HTML template page in Next.js

Feb 6, 20223 min read 102 views

How to serve a dynamic HTML template page in Next.js using Handlebars and Next Rewrites

Clearing Cookie in Next.js

Feb 3, 20221 min read 83 views

Like any other header, a cookie is also a header that web apps use to store essential information. If you want to clear a cookie from server-side in Next.js (which uses node.js under the hood) you can simply use response's setHeader method like so: r...

Clearing Cookie in Next.js

How to make your logged JSON readable?

Sep 15, 20201 min read 346 views

I am tired of logging JSON and seeing [Object] or [Array] on my terminal. So I set out on a mission to do something about it. Enter jq, a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. You can follow the installation guide in the docs for you...

How to make your logged JSON readable?

Another Way to Render SVGs in React

Sep 9, 20203 min read 199 views

I recently came across an interesting pattern to render SVGs in an open-sourced project, so thought of sharing it. Instead of creating one file each for SVG, you construct an object with all your SVGs and export it like below const ICONS = { TWITTE...

Another Way to Render SVGs in React

VS Code extensions I use to be more productive

Sep 3, 20202 min read 3.8K views

We all use some VS Code extensions for our day to day development and are always on a hunt for more useful extensions. Here is a list of mine and how I use them: Peacock We have all been there when we have two editors open and coded in the wrong on...

VS Code extensions I use to be more productive