Bibek Kakati
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Bibek Kakati

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Hey, πŸ‘‹ I'm a full-stack developer with expertise in the MERN stack. I do freelancing, contract jobs for my living πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’». Writing technical blogs to share my knowledge.

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What is CDN?

Jun 29, 20211 min read

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. A CDN is a system of multiple servers distributed geographically which works together to provide fast delivery of Internet content like HTML pages, javascript files, stylesheets, videos and images etc. Why d...

What is CDN?

Introducing SURL 🎊 Shorten your URL

Jun 21, 20213 min read

We all are aware of different URL shortening services like bit.ly, TinyURL etc. I was thinking of building a similar application as it seems very simple but it is very challenging when you consider scalability and reliability. Finally, I got the oppo...

Introducing SURL 🎊 Shorten your URL

Error Handling in JavaScript (Golang Style)

Jun 18, 20212 min read

In this short article, we are going to see how we can handle error in JavaScript in Golang style. I am assuming, you have some experience with JavaScript and you are aware of the issues with error handling like throwing an exception to the parent met...

Error Handling in JavaScript (Golang Style)

How to Implement Copy to Clipboard on a Website

Jun 12, 20212 min read

In this article, we are going to see how we can implement a copy to clipboard functionality on our website. On clicking the Copy button, the content/text of a paragraph tag should be copied to the clipboard which we can paste anywhere in our system. ...

How to Implement Copy to Clipboard on a Website

Generate PDF of HTML Element in Browser

Jun 4, 20212 min read

Hello everyoneπŸ‘‹ In this article, we are going to see how we can generate a PDF of any HTML element in the browser i.e, entirely client-side. We will use the package html2pdf to generate the PDF. html2pdf is using html2canvas to convert the HTML elem...

Generate PDF of HTML Element in Browser

Short Polling vs Long Polling

May 28, 20213 min read

Hello everyoneπŸ‘‹ Before proceeding, I am assuming, you are aware of the request-response architecture of a basic web application. To build a real-time application like a chat application we can't use the basic request-response architecture, but we ca...

Short Polling vs Long Polling