Burhanuddin Udaipurwala

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A Javascript enthusiast. Working with React and React Native and building side projects. I write in my free time and love to read dystopia books. Reach out to me if you want to have a chat over coffee

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Firebase authentication with a third-party 0Auth provider

Jan 24, 2021 2 min read

If you are using Firebase but want to log in users with providers other than the list of providers that Firebase supports, you can use the custom token mechanism to do so. For example, lets say that you want to login users with Discord but Firebase d...

Paging - The secret behind the modern computer's efficient memory management

Oct 6, 2020 5 min read

Have you ever thought about how our computers allocate memory to processes so efficiently? Why is switching between tasks so seamless? This is how How did it work before paging? Let's take a look at how the earliest computers handled loading programs...

React Internals (Part 3) - Fiber Architecture

Oct 5, 2020 5 min read

Review Reconciliation The diffing algorithm that React uses to determine which parts of the tree have changed DOM The DOM or Document Object Model is a tree data structure that is used by the browser. It is a representation of the UI in the form of a...

React Internals (Part 2) - Reconciliation algorithm until React 15

Aug 29, 2020 8 min read

The previous article in the series is a prerequisite to understanding this one. It introduces you to terms and concepts that will be used extensively in this article. I will also link to further reading resources, React docs and sources for writing t...

React Internals (Part 1) - The Basic Concepts and the Prerequisites

Aug 24, 2020 5 min read

This article is a prerequisite to understand more advanced concepts in React. I recommend that you read this before you get into more advanced stuff If you have ever used React, you will hear the words Virtual DOM thrown around a lot. So what is the ...

Reasons I love using Chakra UI for React

Aug 23, 2020 4 min read

Chakra UI is a simple, modular and accessible component library that gives you all the building blocks you need to build your React applications. Chakra is most definitely the most fun I have had while working on a React project. Building UI with it ...