Everything web development, engineerring, procrastination, and life.https://puruvj.dev/https://puruvj.dev/blog/aibind/https://puruvj.dev/blog/aibind/I got tired of rewriting the same AI boilerplate. So I wrote aibind.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/svelte-5-magic-debunked/https://puruvj.dev/blog/svelte-5-magic-debunked/It's time to demystify Svelte 5's magic and see how it's actually just syntactic sugar.Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/svelte-5-interval-rune/https://puruvj.dev/blog/svelte-5-interval-rune/How to build an interval that automatically adapts its timing when your app state changes—no manual cleanup required.Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/neodrag-v3-alpha/https://puruvj.dev/blog/neodrag-v3-alpha/Neodrag V3 Alpha is out! Here's a complete description of the new architecture,performance improvements, and how to use it with your favorite frameworks.Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/playwright-test-to-vitest/https://puruvj.dev/blog/playwright-test-to-vitest/My Playwright drag-and-drop tests failed half the time and couldn't run on CI. Here's how I migrated to Vitest browser mode in 2 days and achieved 99% reliability with 60% faster runs.Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/svelte-5-runic-persist-theming/https://puruvj.dev/blog/svelte-5-runic-persist-theming/Building bulletproof localStorage utilities with cross-tab sync, Zod validation, and automatic cleanup using Svelte 5 runes.Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/neodrag-16k-bundle-combos/https://puruvj.dev/blog/neodrag-16k-bundle-combos/How building a modular drag-and-drop library led me to analyze every possible plugin combination and achieve radical bundle size transparency for developers.Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/whats-up-with-neodrag-v3/https://puruvj.dev/blog/whats-up-with-neodrag-v3/Neodrag v3 has plugin system performance improvements, revamped architecture, deep-level of controlWed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/life-buckets-water/https://puruvj.dev/blog/life-buckets-water/How life is just a bunch of buckets, a tap, and how to make the best of it.Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/forking-and-fixing-traverse/https://puruvj.dev/blog/forking-and-fixing-traverse/This is the entire process of why and how I forked traverse npm package into neotraverse.Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/js-class-private-vs-ts-private/https://puruvj.dev/blog/js-class-private-vs-ts-private/What are the performance differences between private and public count in JavaScript?Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/macos-react-to-svelte/https://puruvj.dev/blog/macos-react-to-svelte/I recently moved macOS web from Preact to Svelte. Here's a firsthand account of my experience.Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/golang-as-javascripter/https://puruvj.dev/blog/golang-as-javascripter/I have written JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart, Python, PHP, C, C++, but never tried golang before. Here is my first hand experience trying it outWed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/deep-dive-into-preact-source-code/https://puruvj.dev/blog/deep-dive-into-preact-source-code/Dive into Preact's source code and explore its simplicitySat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/css-modules-typescript-intellisense/https://puruvj.dev/blog/css-modules-typescript-intellisense/If you're a TypeScript Dev, here are a few things you can do to get that sweet, sweet CSS class intellisenseFri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/move-to-css-modules-from-styled-components/https://puruvj.dev/blog/move-to-css-modules-from-styled-components/A little writeup of my reasons behind moving from Styled Components to SCSS modules, and the benefits I got out of this.Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/macos-dock-animation-svelte/https://puruvj.dev/blog/macos-dock-animation-svelte/Let's make the beautiful macOS Dock animation using SvelteFri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/get-to-know-typescript--mindblowing-typescript-tricks/https://puruvj.dev/blog/get-to-know-typescript--mindblowing-typescript-tricks/There's a lot about TypeScript that most people don't know. I'll surface some of the "unknown" stuff in this blog post.Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/moving-macos-from-react-to-preact-vite/https://puruvj.dev/blog/moving-macos-from-react-to-preact-vite/How I moved my 40+ components app from React to Preact in under 10 minutesTue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/get-to-know-typescript--react-hooks-return-array-issue/https://puruvj.dev/blog/get-to-know-typescript--react-hooks-return-array-issue/React and TypeScript make up a great pair. But when you're trying to make your own hooks, and returning an array, TypeScript yells at your. Find out why.Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/get-to-know-typescript--using-typescript-without-typescript/https://puruvj.dev/blog/get-to-know-typescript--using-typescript-without-typescript/Wanna use TypeScript but don't want all the compiler and tooling overhead? Read on to know how.Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/get-to-know-typescript-an-ode-to-typescript/https://puruvj.dev/blog/get-to-know-typescript-an-ode-to-typescript/TypeScript is cool. Super cool. It's made us Web Dev's life super easy. Read me being a total fanboy about it.Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/promisify-callbacks-in-nodejs/https://puruvj.dev/blog/promisify-callbacks-in-nodejs/Completely get rid of callbacks in NodeJS and replace them with the great Promises.Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/create-folder-if-not-exists/https://puruvj.dev/blog/create-folder-if-not-exists/The simplest and dependency-free way to create a folder in NodeJS if it doesn't existMon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/fs-promises/https://puruvj.dev/blog/fs-promises/If you've spent some time with Node's fs API, you know how huge a pain its callback based pattern can get. Read out how to flatten your code using promises and async await syntaxMon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/top-level-await/https://puruvj.dev/blog/top-level-await/Top level await is literally the GOAT (Greatest of All Time). In every way. Read on to know why, how to use it, and its implicationsMon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/setup-prettier-vscode/https://puruvj.dev/blog/setup-prettier-vscode/Set up auto formatting in VSCode in just 5 minutes.Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/get-free-github-pro-and-perks/https://puruvj.dev/blog/get-free-github-pro-and-perks/Are you a student? Then you better enroll yourself into getting the Github Student Developer Pack. So many great perks. Find out more about it.Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/blog-every-week-rant/https://puruvj.dev/blog/blog-every-week-rant/Just some random rant to make myself blog every weekWed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/git-pr-clean-commits/https://puruvj.dev/blog/git-pr-clean-commits/It's easy to submit dirty PRs with unnecessary number of stowaway commits. Learn how to clean this up.Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/chaining-promises-array-methods/https://puruvj.dev/blog/chaining-promises-array-methods/Using async await in array methods is quite tricky. But it gets even trickier when you chain multiple array methods. Find out how.Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/flatten-settimeout/https://puruvj.dev/blog/flatten-settimeout/Simplify and clean your codebase by making setTimeout more idiomatic using PromisesMon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/split-array-chunks/https://puruvj.dev/blog/split-array-chunks/Split an array into `n` number of multiple arrays with JavaScriptSun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/gif-to-mp4-ffmpeg-fluent-web/https://puruvj.dev/blog/gif-to-mp4-ffmpeg-fluent-web/GIF to MP4 conversion for performance is all the rage nowadays. But doing so in practice is really difficult, especially for cross-browser compatibility. Learn how to do it rightFri, 25 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/how-i-created-personal-site-part-3/https://puruvj.dev/blog/how-i-created-personal-site-part-3/In this post, I delve deep into how I automated image optimization on my blog.Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/how-i-created-personal-site-part-2/https://puruvj.dev/blog/how-i-created-personal-site-part-2/In this post, I delve into the details of how I built the blogging with markdown systemSun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/how-i-created-personal-site-part-1/https://puruvj.dev/blog/how-i-created-personal-site-part-1/In this post, I delve into the details of the design part of how I built my personal site with StencilJS and what did I use to do so.Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/link-noopener/https://puruvj.dev/blog/link-noopener/Do you know adding a link with target=_blank has the potential of crashing your page and is very insecure? Find out how and its prevention.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/web-workers-intro-basic-usage/https://puruvj.dev/blog/web-workers-intro-basic-usage/Have you ever heard this term "Web Workers" mentioned somewhere and wondered what the hell is this new thing? let me introduce you to this great tech.Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/google-fonts-prefetch/https://puruvj.dev/blog/google-fonts-prefetch/Efficiently and Asynchronously load Google Fonts based on Data Saver modeFri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/stencil-router-events/https://puruvj.dev/blog/stencil-router-events/How to detect route changes in StencilJS Router using the core StencilJS APIs. No dependencies.Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/pitfalls-stencil-helmet-prerendering/https://puruvj.dev/blog/pitfalls-stencil-helmet-prerendering/Stencil Helmet can break the whole app really bad on some occasions, some so random that you might never find out whyTue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://puruvj.dev/blog/my-first-blog/https://puruvj.dev/blog/my-first-blog/My very first blog post on my very first functional siteSun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT