Zia Ur Rehman

Oh it was spectacular when I first came in contact with Go... For me, it was easier to develop and maintain than C/C++ yet much, much faster than Node.js and Python. I was in love. The first major project I worked on, in Go, was a restaurant booking service. The backend was written in PHP originally and I was tasked with helping a team rewrite the backend in Go. I'm currently working with another team, on a collaboration platform, and there are plans on rewriting their backend in Go, too. In addition to all of that, I'm developing a feature-rich mail-daemon in Go, that I intend to work on slowly, while keeping pace with the emerging technologies in this area.

Comes as part of the job as a frontend developer. See details in other sections, I suppose.

I am currently employed as a Node.js expert. The first major project I worked on as a Node.js developer was an on-demand Node.js application hosting service. I also developed the API for a food-product search engine. I did several REST APIs in Node.js as part of contracts I've had over the past few years. Shortly after I started doing professional work with Node.js, I started getting frontend tasks involving Angular.js and I had to learn it. Right now I'm making my way towards Angular2 which is pretty exciting. I recently (~6 months ago) started working with React too, which seems very cool. And of course, before all of this, there was jQuery, jQuery UI et. al.

Node.js has been my bread and butter for ~5 years. See details in the JavaScript section. For REST APIs initially I worked mainly with express.js. However, with io.js initially (and later back to node.js when it was merged with io.js in v4) I switched to koa.js which has been API framework of choice for me for quite some time now. I am now switching to node.js stdlib and streams for all http/tcp work and it has been going great. I've also used hapi.js but not a fan, frankly. All the other tags are infrastructure apis that come with working on REST APIs.

See JavaScript section for details.

Recently started working with React. Knowing JS, React was a bit more complex than usual because I was used to thinking MVC style. With Redux, it's become easier to mix MVC approach with classic React apps. See JavaScript section for details.

Before I was accustomed to Angular.js, I worked with jQuery for all frontend JS. It has been some time since I last used it as the main framework on a frontend app, but I still know (and sometimes use it as part of Angular.js - angular.element) and use it.