Rahul KadyanJump to section titled Rahul Kadyan

I write about software, technology, and occasionally, life.

2025Jump to section titled 2025

Zero Config Approach (July 15, 2025)
Every monorepo starts out clean, but as it scales, configuration files can become a burden. This post discusses how we embraced conventions and tag-driven automation to eliminate repetitive boilerplate and configuration drift.

Reclaim Toolchain Ownership (July 14, 2025)
Continuing the monorepo series, this post discusses the importance of owning your toolchain. It’s about customizing your development environment to fit your needs, rather than being constrained by default settings.

Single Version Policy (July 11, 2025)
Next in the series on monorepo learnings: how we tackled dependency chaos with a Single Version Policy. This approach ensures all packages share the same version of dependencies.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (July 7, 2025)
Would you go back in time if you cannot change the past? Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a gentle, meditative exploration of longing, regret, and unresolved feelings through the lens of time travel.

Package-First Philosophy (July 2, 2025)
Last year, I had the opportunity to design a monorepo at work. The experience taught me valuable lessons about code organization and team dynamics. This is the first in a series sharing those learnings—starting with how we made packages the center of our development universe.

2020Jump to section titled 2020

Negative feedback comes from a good place (January 14, 2020)
Reflections on the importance of honest feedback and how to give and receive it constructively in professional environments.

2019Jump to section titled 2019

Shipping Web Components with Vue (November 9, 2019)
A comprehensive guide on how to build and export Vue components as web components using Vue CLI and Rollup, making them reusable across different frameworks.

Simple Hard Things (June 10, 2019)
Exploring the challenges of getting seemingly simple design details right, particularly around typography and spacing in web design.

Grammarly in Code (June 3, 2019)
The journey of building a VS Code extension to integrate Grammarly into the code editor, solving the pain of switching between editors while writing.

Finally Some Colors (June 3, 2019)
Adding color and visual improvements to enhance the reading experience of a blog.

Comments in Code (May 26, 2019)
A detailed exploration of different types of code comments - clarification, documentation, license, reference, tagged, and control comments - with examples from Vue.js source.

Running an awesome conference (May 20, 2019)
The story of organizing Vue.js conferences in India, from the initial inspiration to the challenges and rewards of bringing the Vue community together.

2018Jump to section titled 2018

Type Vuex without TypeScript (November 20, 2018)
A continuation guide showing how to add type checking and intellisense to Vuex stores using JSDoc annotations and helper patterns, without switching to TypeScript.

Type Vue without TypeScript (November 11, 2018)
A practical guide demonstrating how to get TypeScript-like type checking and intellisense in Vue components using JSDoc annotations and VS Code, without actually using TypeScript.

2017Jump to section titled 2017

Accessible Components: Test Driven Approach (November 29, 2017)
How to use automated accessibility testing in Vue components to ensure they meet ARIA standards and provide inclusive user experiences.

Provide/Inject in Vue 2.2 (March 10, 2017)
An exploration of Vue's provide/inject feature introduced in version 2.2, showing how it enables dependency injection patterns for advanced component communication.

Fiddle with Vue.js (March 5, 2017)
A guide for Vue.js contributors on how to create proper minimal reproductions for bug reports, including best practices for JSFiddle and repository setups.

First Day in Vue.js (March 3, 2017)
The personal story of discovering Vue.js while struggling with Angular, and how Vue's simplicity and elegance made complex interactive features achievable in just a few hours.