This Week’s Top 5 Learnings – From Shruti’s Desk
useRef, Zustand, TanStack Query, 3000 subs on YouTube!
Here’s what I have learnt this week -
1️⃣ Beating Heart in CSS – Turns out, making a heartbeat ❤️ animation is easier than I thought! Just one <div>, two content blocks, and a simple keyframe animation of zoom. Check it out here and make it for your valentine.
2️⃣ useRef in React – What’s cool is that React doesn’t re-render when ref updates which makes it handy for persisting values across renders.
3️⃣ Zustand for State Management – Think useState and useContext, but without the hassle of wrapping everything in Providers and without prop-drilling! A lightweight, flexible alternative to Redux.
4️⃣ TanStack Query = Fetching on Steroids – Not just for fetching APIs—it also handles caching, prefetching, pagination, and infinite scrolling. No wonder everyone loves it! It does a lot of the things for you that you would have to manually track. Here’s a video of my experience adding it to my app.
5️⃣ React State Management Without Extra Libraries – You don’t always need Zustand or TanStack Query. I walked through a React app in my weekly livestreams to show how you can manage state effectively with just built-in React tools.
News from Me ❤️
❤️ Let’s hit 3K YouTube subs! Help me make it happen by subscribing to my YouTube channel and when we do, I’ll celebrate by reviewing your resume, answering your questions and teaching you how to make chai, Shruti style.
❤️ Fireside Chat with Addy Osmani – We had a heartwarming conversation about burnout, staying focused, and building momentum by building things. Don’t miss it!
❤️ Daily Livestreams (Season 2) is LIVE! I’m building a production-grade React app that does a real estate search with OpenAI in public — join me every weekday at 9:30 PM PST on YouTube. Let’s learn together!
❤️ My burnout recovery & YouTube journey – I shared my personal story on Coding Adda’s YouTube channel. Go check it out!
❤️ Epic Web - I am coming to Epic Web to talk about Building Accessible Web Apps - doing a demo of my real estate side project, and showing you how I messed up, and how to fix the mistakes. Come and hang out!
A Poll To Know About You..
And Now A DevJoke..
What is the most commonly used language in programming?
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Profanity
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