Published inTech Tonic·PinnedLearn basics of React quicklyIntroduction Welcome to the world of React! With this article, I’m going to help you get started on the wonderful journey of React. This article is about the absolute basics of React. For example — How to set up a React project, what are React components, some basics of JSX, and…React19 min readReact19 min read
Published inTech Tonic·PinnedThe basics of Node.js in 30 minutesAudience Node.js is an extremely popular server-side JavaScript runtime suited for running web apps. If you already know or have used Node.js, you may want to skip this article as this covers the very basics. If you are new to Node.js, this article will take you on a quick crash course…Nodejs27 min readNodejs27 min read
Published inTech Tonic·PinnedThe ultimate guide to DenoThis article is a categorized index to the exclusive medium magazine on Deno: Deno World. The magazine has 300 articles on Deno. This constantly updated article provides pointers to the best and most viewed articles in each category. The official Deno documentation is here. Getting started The ultimate beginner’s guide Installation of…Deno6 min readDeno6 min read
Published inTech Tonic·1 day agoMy experience with Bard & chatGPT - Part 1Introduction The ChatGPT Ever since OpenAI’s launched ChatGPT on Nov 30th 2022, the world was taken by a storm. It became an overnight sensation. The talk of the town. Out of curiosity, people flocked to try it out, check the potential, usefulness, the hype, etc. ChatGPT made LLM (Large Language Model) a household…Bard Ai12 min readBard Ai12 min read
Published inTech Tonic·4 days agoNode.js vs Deno vs Bun: Who can encode & decode fastest using web APIs?All three, i.e. Node.js, Deno, and Bun, supports some core web APIs. In this article, I’m going to check who can encode & decode the fastest using web standard TextEncoder & TextDecoder. Of course, I know that, in the real world, no app would be running 5M encodings and decodings…Nodejs3 min readNodejs3 min read
Published inTech Tonic·4 days agoCan Bun run any app faster? (Use case: Fastify)The newest JS runtime, Bun, is all about speed. The official story is that Bun is an enhanced & complete developer experience, however things boil down to speed very quickly. Bun’s home page also shows a graph about Bun’s speed. I’ve seen that Bun can run the same express app…Nodejs3 min readNodejs3 min read
Published inTech Tonic·5 days agoRust Actix vs Spring webflux: HTTP server performance for hello worldIn this article, I’m going to take a look at Rust — Actix vs Spring webflux performance comparison for a simple hello world case. Test setup The tests are executed on MacBook Pro M1 with 16G of RAM. The software versions are: Actix web 4 over Rust 1.69.0 Spring 3.0.5 …Rust3 min readRust3 min read
Published inTech Tonic·5 days agoNode.js vs Rust: Performance comparison for Hello World caseOne of the readers has requested for this comparison. In this article, I’m going to compare Node’s native server with Rust’s hyper server for a simple hello world case. Of course, we can predict the results! Test setup All tests are executed on MacBook Pro M1 with 16G of RAM. …Nodejs3 min readNodejs3 min read
Published inTech Tonic·6 days agoNode.js vs Deno: Who can sign JWT the fastest?JWT is one of the most popular ways to authenticate users. JSON web token (JWT), pronounced “jot”, is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object. Again, JWT is a standard, meaning that all JWTs are…Nodejs3 min readNodejs3 min read
Published inTech Tonic·May 12Java: Performance benefits of virtual threads — 2In the previous hello world article, I tried evaluating virtual threads against physical threads (or you can call them normal threads), and couldn’t see much of the promised benefits that virtual threads would bring. I got comments that the ‘hello world’ case doesn’t do much, so virtual threads don’t get…Java4 min readJava4 min read
