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🚨Watch on YouTube What is the best approach for handling colors in React app? Let’s find out. We’ll use the HSLA color format that has four components. Hue is the color itself. It’s an angle on the color wheel that ranges from 0 to 360, where 120 would be green…

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🚨Watch On YouTube Here I have a resolver for coupon code redemption. It should throw an error when the code doesn’t exist or has a claim. Apollo server provides a few errors we can use to communicate errors to a client. import { OperationContext } from "../../../graphql/OperationContext" import { assertUserId }…

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Recently I decided to give up on my side project — a jobs aggregator for remote react developers. I worked on it for a month and a half and invested 41 hours of work into it. Could I validate the idea faster? Let’s find out. The Problem and Existing Solutions …