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Mastering any skill follows three stages—Replication, Iteration, and Creation. If you're stuck in tutorial hell, here’s how to break through. Understanding "Tutorial Hell" Have you ever spent hours watching tutorials, following along step-by-step, only to feel lost when trying to create someth...

It's not completely your fault (maybe a little, but not much). I'll help you understand why. Different companies will have different ways of shortlisting candidates and interviewing them. Here I'll just talk from my experience in hiring for engineering talent at Rocketium. I hope this might hold t...

During November 2023, we formed a small team at Rocketium to build a next gen canvas editor for the top marketing teams in the world. We already had an editor but it had a lot of limitations due to the tech we used few years back to build it. Now with this new editor the goal was to build a perform...

This is the story of me spending three hours just to realize that the axios version I was using was broken, and as a side-quest I realised how multi-part form data works under the hood! While working on fixing security vulnerabilities in a large codebase at my company I had to make a long pending ...

Writing tests is something I used to dread, but once I started writing them it feels like one of the best gifts I could give to my future self, because it will save him hours of manual testing when adding more features to the API. But there was a very valid reason in my head of why I didn't write t...

Another day in building a Digital Management System for Rocketium, I had to build the functionality of downloading a folder which would have multiple files and folders within them. The neat way of doing this obviously would be to create zip of this folder and send it to the client to download. But ...

Recently while building a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system at [Rocketium](https://rocketium.com), I was posed with a problem of building a hierarical structure to store files and folders where each folder may have more deeply nested folders containing files. Now, while this problem is simple to...

OpenAI's ChatGPT is definitely the hottest topic of discussion right now if you're working in Tech and "Prompt Engineering" has emerged as a new buzzword for all the tech bros. Prompts have become a new language to communicate with GPT or other LLM based models. But what is a prompt and what is pro...

Never leave your UI state unattended Many frontend developers leave their UI state unattended while an async request is being processed. This leads to a bad user experience as the user is not informed about what’s happening with the system. This quick guide will help you understand how you can...