Recently, I had a chance to go deep into the security of file upload processing. In this article, I am sharing some of the questions that I dealt with, and insights from the experience of answering them. …

In this article I am demonstrating a practical way to generate a client from Open API 3.0 specification. Specifically, I am generating an Angular Service from the Spotify Swagger Spec (Open API 3.0) produced by Jonas. You could apply the same approach to generate a server-side client for node.js …

In this article, I am explaining about a simple, yet effective method to recursively fetch the contents of directories in a drag-n-drop operation. You could use this for uploading multiple folders to server. If you’re interested in the working code, can go straight to the stackblitz demo that I have…

In this article I am explaining what data structures to use instead of Map and Set for easy serialization and deserialization across a JavaScript, TypeScript oriented back-end, front-end configuration. I am also explaining a method to use the same class in the front-end and the back-end. As can be seen…

In this article I am extending my experiments with Spotify Web API to discover how their recommendation system works. Let’s see if we can answer these questions: Does exploring the patterns in user data provide any cues about their taste of music? Can we relate the data they expose through…

In this article, I am extending my previous experiments with Spotify Web API. My goal is to download my Liked Songs and count the number of times a particular artist appears among the Liked Songs. This can give you an idea about what you like. It can also help you…

Plans are everywhere and everyone is having plans. But in the real world what matters is the execution and results. So, to give wings to your plans, here are the 7 practical ways that I use to effectively execute plans. Please feel free to share how you execute plans effectively…

In this article, I am explaining how to visualize audio features of Spotify Tracks using D3.js in an Angular application. These are the top two reasons why am I writing this article: How can you better understand yourself by going deeper into what you like (your saved tracks on Spotify…

In this post, I am explaining a simple, yet effective way to load the progress of the currently playing songs on any Spotify connected device. Two approaches for getting notified about the progress of activities (Playing songs in our case) Pull Approach: Your application actively checks for the status of the job. In simple words…