Srushti Suvarna

Hello, team. So, I'm a front-end developer with around 4 years of experience in front-end development, specializing in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks such as Vue and React. Throughout my career, I've dedicated myself to crafting visually appealing and user-friendly solutions, having worked on various projects including US healthcare domain projects, such as comprehensive health record management and digital news platforms, at Infosys. I'm currently working on a project for the McClatchy company. Besides this, I have experience with Beautify, Tailwind, Casa for UI layout, Jenkins for CICD, Git for version control, TypeScript, and Jest and Cypress for testing tools.

Okay, so to ensure type safety in a Vue JS project, we use interfaces and type aliases to ensure type safety. And, as TypeScript, it's better to have variables. They provide type safety for static typing. So, we would assign data types to functions with written variables, and each variable.

What approach would you take to manage the state in a BlueJeans application? So, I would take an approach where I would work with both UX and Kenya. As I worked with Kenya, I found that Kenya has a modular API which is more beneficial than UX. We can have a subscribe method as well, and it's simpler to use than UX. We can use both, though. The flow goes like this: we have the state, the getters, and the actions for that. It would be a single source of truth for our application. In Vuex, we can have one module which means one base file, and that would be one state management, with different modules. Here, we can have the different modules bifurcated, and import them accordingly to our needs. This would allow for code splitting and optimize the page load time as well.

To ensure that the Vue JS application's UI is responsive and adaptive to various devices, so to have the responsiveness in the UI application, I have used techniques to have it use media queries. We use the beautifier, and they are using material design UI. Even if we don't use the beautifier, we should stick to material design UI and have the typographic things, the size things defined for this much width and the mean this much of the device, that's the small or medium device. This should be the typography and the typography size, and this should be the container size. So we can define it like this, and there won't be any issues with that. Further, we can check with the Chrome DevTools and the View Dev Tools as well. For different devices, we can even use a simulator, such as Sauce Labs, which we are currently using in our project to check and run the application thoroughly, in an actual device, but a simulator. Yeah, in an actual device like this.

What techniques would you apply for migrating a JavaScript project to TypeScript effectively? So, yeah, so for migrating a project so as TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, we can go 1 by 1, changing the migrating 1 by 1 files, sir, to from JavaScript to typescript, and it would get converted accordingly as it would be having the config file for that, where we can mention these files has to be changed and this doesn't have to be changed or the folder mentioned. And we can go to each and every file, and we can have the base structure first to decide it. Like, this would be the interface folder. This would be the type aliases folder if we are using the base, interface that would be used for many files. Yes. So we can have the basic, and then we can start with each and every component and go through.

This application. Okay. So, if the page load time is needed much, in case of server-side rendering, we can have the page load. I mean, the main layout, the HTML, would be compiled at the server, and then it will be sent to the client. So the page load time would really increase at that time. I have worked on server-side rendering with structuring. And, in React, I've implemented it using the async data thing. So, I've logged in you and React for both for server-side rendering. And, for the client-side rendering, it would be like the file would be rendered on the browser, and then the JavaScript would be compiled on the browser. So, it would take time for the file to be compiled and then rendered. So, there would be a lag between the page loading and the responsiveness of the element, the UI.

So here, instead of selecting every field from the users, we can have specific things, which means an object passes or a specific set of fields that should be extracted from the users, and not the whole thing, and not all the fields. So that would be a best practice that we can follow.

Firstly, for error handling, we can have the status codes defined in one file, and then use it here directly. So if this is a status code from the API, then that should be the message or that should be the thing that should be rendered if we get maybe we are calling some other API or some layout. The error page is some particular error page has to be rendered or we have to redirect to some other page. So, accordingly, the error handling can be optimized using these status codes, the API status codes that you would be getting. And instead of fetch, if we can use exeos, that would be better for the error handling, actually, because in exeos, it considers the 500 or the 402 errors as the error. It doesn't just consider the 400 errors as the error. All the other errors would be in the success as well. So for better error handling and the method types as well, we can use exeos over fetch because of its structure.

So for lazy loading the components in our Vue JS application, we can use the import statement, and it would be an arrow function like this. We use brackets and then import, and you would have the file path over that. So we can use lazy loading like this for the components in a new JS application, and it would really optimize the page load time as we would have conditional rendering in the template that we have. So we don't need all the components at the initial time only. So we can use lazy loading like this. And in Vue Router as well, if you have the router file, we have many routes. So we don't need to import all the components at the initial stage. We can just import the file whenever the router hits, actually. This would optimize, and we can implement lazy loading like this.

So what strategies would you employ to integrate the WebSocket communication? To integrate the WebSocket communication, we can use the socket.io library, that is provided from NPM. So, we can direct that. And using that, we can have the WebSocket connection built up and use its methods to send and receive the data. So the WebSocket is once there is a handshake, it's once there is a handshake between the client and the server, we don't have to repeatedly have the connection built out. Check the accept headers and all. So once it's done, once the connection is built, it would stay alive until we close it down. At last, that's the closest thing. And this would save the time of the WebSocket, and there would be the time at the same time, this client and the server can send and receive the data.

So, I don't have experience with the Electron JS framework particularly. But as it's mentioned, we have to integrate an Electron JS framework in a web application. So, we can use the global CDN or the NPM install node package manager, NPM or Yarn for this, and we can have the config file defined for it. And, according to the config files, we can have it injected into the main entry file that we would be having and use that in the application. For further depth, I would like to go into more depth and review the documentation of Electron and learn about it.