Shalitha Suranga Programmer | Author of Neutralino.js | Technical Writer

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How to build a customized React Native activity indicator

How to build a customized React Native activity indicator

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Learn how to customize and use a React Native activity indicator to fit into any app and ways to display customized cross-platform activity indicators with several third-party libraries and inbuilt APIs!

Shalitha Suranga
Sep 26, 2022 ⋅ 13 min read
Caching clash: SWR vs. TanStack Query for React

Caching clash: SWR vs. TanStack Query for React

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With the language-agnostic release of TanStack Query, we review its features, tooling, and usability against SWR, another React caching tool.

Shalitha Suranga
Sep 7, 2022 ⋅ 15 min read
Understanding AJAX requests in React Native

Understanding AJAX requests in React Native

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There are several ways to make AJAX requests that you can choose from for your React Native app, and we cover quite a few in this post.

Shalitha Suranga
Aug 30, 2022 ⋅ 14 min read
ExpansionPanel in Flutter: A guide with examples

ExpansionPanel in Flutter: A guide with examples

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In this guide, learn how to use the ExpansionPanel widget to add collapsible item descriptions and more to your Flutter app.

Shalitha Suranga
Aug 23, 2022 ⋅ 11 min read

Building a Flutter desktop app: Tutorial with examples

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Learn the benefits and basics of building a desktop app with Flutter for Windows, macOS, and other supported output targets.

Shalitha Suranga
Aug 1, 2022 ⋅ 6 min read
React Native touchable vs. pressable components

React Native touchable vs. pressable components

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Learn the difference between touchable and pressable components in React Native, and how to implement different effects with each kind.

Shalitha Suranga
Jul 11, 2022 ⋅ 12 min read
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Using custom Chrome tabs in Flutter with the flutter_custom_tabs plugin

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Learn to implement Chrome Custom Tabs in Flutter applications with Flutter_custom_tabs, which offers impressive cross-platform features.

Shalitha Suranga
Jun 16, 2022 ⋅ 11 min read
Using Input Masks In React Native

Using input masks in React Native

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Implement input masks in React Native to develop user-friendly input constraints such as entering data according to a pre-defined format.

Shalitha Suranga
May 19, 2022 ⋅ 12 min read
Why you should use a Go backend in Flutter

Why you should use a Go backend in Flutter

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Go-based backends bring numerous benefits for Flutter frontends. You can avoid time-consuming business logic rewrites by using Go modules in the Flutter app.

Shalitha Suranga
May 9, 2022 ⋅ 15 min read
Using WebSockets with Fastify

Using WebSockets with Fastify

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In this tutorial, learn how to use Fastify-WebSocket plugin your Fastify-based, RESTful web APIs using practical examples..

Shalitha Suranga
May 3, 2022 ⋅ 11 min read

What you need to know about inbuilt browser HTML sanitization

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Read up on the experimental, inbuilt browser API for HTML sanitization in this post and learn how you can better prepare for XSS attacks.

Shalitha Suranga
Mar 16, 2022 ⋅ 9 min read
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Flutter vs. Ionic for cross-platform development

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Compare and contrast Flutter and Ionic to help select the framework most suitable for your cross-platform development project.

Shalitha Suranga
Feb 25, 2022 ⋅ 12 min read