Let’s get one something straight. There are few reasons your app shouldn’t be available on both iOS and Android. Unless you are building something niche and specific which fully exploits the underlying platform APIs, you will want the app to be available on as many platforms as possible. …

Developing an app which works offline and syncs to server when it comes online is a challenge. You need to work with cache revalidation and merging data across sources. Same user may be logged in from multiple devices, and change data both offline and online. These are some of the…

If I ask why do we use URLs for, the straightforward answer would be that URLs are how you reach certain parts of a website, either by clicking on a link or by typing it in the browser URL bar. If you are more savvy, you could say it’s to…

Why valtio? JavaScript ecosystem has quite a few choices for state management. Redux, Mobx, VueX, Recoil, Hookstate, Valtio… the list seems endless. Valtio is a relatively new way of managing state in this list, and it uses JavaScript proxies to provide reactivity. A typical redux based setup has the following: One global…

Originally wrote on my blog: http://www.prabhakarbhat.com/2015/11/the-organic-food-propaganda/ As you move up in Maslow’s hierarchy, you encounter new fears. One of them is food. You start to divide food into “healthy food” and “junk food”. You start to consume nutrition supplements. You start buying organic food for double the price. You start…