Hey, I'm Nikhil
I’m a software developer who loves making things.
Projects
Here are some things I've made recently
Leaderboard API
An API to manage scoreboards and leaderboards
Secret Helper
A helper library for creating api keys, hashing and verifying hashes.
Raspberry pi weather display
Laser-cut case to house a raspberry pi that fetches the weather and displays it on an e-ink display.
London startups
a website that aggregates startups from London
Managing state without redux
Playing around with the react useContext and useReducer API to manage state
Pineapple Journal
Daily journalling web app built using React
Tracking royal mail packages with node
I wrote a puppeteer script to track package deliveries
HTTP Status code checker
Offline reference tool for quickly referencing HTTP status codes.
Responsive website for a school
I designed and built a responsive site for a friend's school using Gatsby JS
Weather CLI tool
A quick project to get the weather in your command line
Bombay train map
I designed a London-inspired map for the train lines in Bombay.
Brexit means Breadsticks
A Chrome extension that turns every mention of Brexit into Breadsticks.
Writing
Here are a few things I've written
Testing stdout in Node.js using Jest
How to assert against stdout output in Node.js
Quick gotcha: localstack returning BadRequest
a quick gotcha if you keep getting `BadRequest` without a useful error message trying to connect another container to localstack S3
How to create an S3 bucket and add files and tags to it
Using localstack to develop on AWS locally
Using Swagger 3.0 for request & response validation
quick tutorial on setting up a simple express service using swagger 3.0
5 things that happen every time you require a file in node
How node's require works
How require and module.exports in node works
How node runs your code
How mutating state can lead to bugs in software
Some examples of how mutating state can introduce unexpected bugs
How to Group an array of objects by key
Group an array of objects into an object organised by a key of choice
Bash script to dynamically open web pages straight from the terminal
Automate opening up pages with repetitive patterns
Unit testing using sinon sandbox
Sinon sandbox makes stubbing much easier.
How to quickly change kubernetes contexts using kubectl
Some shortcuts & a bash function to quickly change contexts
Examples of closures in JavaScript
A few examples of closures, and how they offer re-usability.
How I came to love small objects and methods in Ruby
How I started writing more readable & testable functions
Using Sinon calledWith to assert that a function was called correctly
Using Sinon to unit test better