OTC CatchUp #11 Summary

General introductions.

@Saurabh Daware talked about an NPM package that he had made called PWAinit, which initializes the PWA development process without having to write basic service worker, manifest.json, push api and index.html code.

@Harsh Kapadia and @Aayush Pal talked about templating engines like EJS, Handlebars, Jinja2 and Mustache. @Saurabh Daware talked about Abell Renderer, a templating engine that he built for a static site generator called Abell.js that he is building!

@Aayush Pal talked about the tech stack of a product that he is building with someone. He is using Fiber (An Express-inspired web framework written in Go.), Tailwind CSS and Handlebars. @Harsh Kapadia and @Kartik Soneji have been helping him with his doubts.

TSEC alum and @Harsh Kapadia's neighbour Priyanka Agrawal, who works as an Assistant Manager at PwC India (Cyber Security domain) also came in to answer some questions related to Cyber Security.

Priyanka, @sirus and @Aayush Pal talked about companies vs start ups and bootstrapped vs investor start ups.

@Harsh Kapadia talked about two resources that he has been referring to and really liking

Fahaad asked for advice on how to go about building projects.

@Ashish Bhogesara, @Kartik Soneji and @Harsh Kapadia talked about vanilla CSS, CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, etc) and CSS pre-processors (SASS, LESS, etc). @Ashish Bhogesara shared an article that he wrote on Building Your Own CSS Framework as well.

I Remembered Only by @Sai Deepesh. He made a pattern-remembering web app using React.

@sirus showed us the updates that he made to his Flutter poem-writing app Heartry. @Aayush Pal gave some good tips to improve the UI and UX!