Blogs

I Put My Daily Step Count on My Website (Here’s How)

I wanted my real-time step count on my portfolio website, so I built an Expo app to fetch it. Using Android Health Connect and background tasks, the app silently syncs my activity data to my backend

Abhinav Yadav

Abhinav Yadav

Dec 22, 2025

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Why We Ditched React Native CLI for Expo

We were stuck on React Native 0.69, fighting build errors instead of shipping features. So we ditched the CLI, migrated our entire production app to Expo in 33 days, and finally fixed our release speed

Abhinav Yadav

Abhinav Yadav

Dec 21, 2025

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How I Use AbortController To Kill Unwanted Requests

A concise guide to using AbortController in React/Next.js to cancel fetch requests during unmounts, searches, route changes, and timeouts by passing a signal and handling AbortError.

Abhinav Yadav

Abhinav Yadav

Oct 7, 2025

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How to Blur Placeholder for Images in Next.js

Next.js makes it easy to add a blur placeholder to images using placeholder="blur" and a base64 blurDataURL

Abhinav Yadav

Abhinav Yadav

Aug 31, 2025

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My First Blog

I’ve just graduated as a computer science engineer and started working at a healthcare tech startup in a new city. Through this blog, I’ll share my journey, thoughts, and lessons along the way

Abhinav Yadav

Abhinav Yadav

Aug 30, 2025

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