Experienced Software Engineer with hands-on experience in developing numerous complex enterprise systems for E-Commerce, and Fintech industries. Expertise in cutting-edge technologies such as C#, .NET, Typescript, RESTful Web Services, ReactJS, Angular, JUnit, Mockito, Docker, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Amazon Web Services.
As a passionate developer with leadership skills, I not only excel in coding but also in inspiring and guiding my team. I believe in fostering a collaborative environment where everyone works together effectively to achieve common goals.
Worked with many cloud platforms mainly with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform
Developed pixel perfect web applications and REST APIs for cross platform applications
Delivered many applications with no bugs using mock and unit testing techniques with modern frameworks
Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa
NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Sindh
Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
Communication and Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals
What If i tell you that majority of us are mostly focusing towards the optimization of our client side and server side code but ignoring the most important part i.e npm package optimization. Today I am going to provide you with the most ignored optimization that can be done with just one command
It's 2024 and I am currently working in one of the company, where we follow very strict rules to optimize code. However, we were missing the most important part which I identified when my professional development story was going on.
I was working on CI/CD pipelines and was assigned a very basic task of adding and removing some dependencies from our project due to security vulnerability. Suddenly, I noticed that in our CI/CD pipeline, we are using the npm command `npm install` in the production.
That complete build was taking around 10 minutes to perform all the testing and creating our build folder. The most noticable thing was, we were using around 20 dev packages and it was being installed in the production (being deployed in s3 bucket later on). Yep, that's correct. `20 dev packages` in the production.
What exactly was the problem?
Dev dependencies are only used during development and wasn't required to be in the production. As a result, not only they were taking space in s3, but also resulting in increasing time of our build.
Approach I Took to reduce Build Time
I researched for hours in the internet and found a very basic command `npm install --production`. That single command took responsibility of only installing the dependencies which are non-dev.
Results?
Our build time reduced from 10 mins to just 3 mins, which is around 70% improvement in build time. Moreover, we also noticed remarkable improvement in uploading of the build folder as its size was decreased.