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typescript
import { registerLocaleData } from '@angular/common'; import localeFr from '@angular/common/locales/fr'; import localeFrExtra from '@angular/common/locales/extra/fr'; import localeDe from '@angular/common/locales/de';
Locale-aware bootstrapping in Angular
i18n
localization
dependency-injection
Intermediate
8 steps
php
<?php class NameParser {
Parsing a full name into components in PHP
string-parsing
arrays
normalization
Intermediate
8 steps
rust
use serde::Deserialize; #[derive(Debug, Deserialize)] #[serde(untagged)]
Parsing flexible JSON shapes with serde
deserialization
enums
json
Intermediate
6 steps
ruby
require "shellwords" require "open3" module Backup
Building safe shell commands in Ruby
shell-out
subprocess
command-injection
Intermediate
7 steps
python
from fastapi import FastAPI, WebSocket, WebSocketDisconnect app = FastAPI()
Building a WebSocket chat with FastAPI
websockets
broadcast
connection-management
Intermediate
9 steps
typescript
import { Module } from '@nestjs/common'; import { ConfigModule } from '@nestjs/config'; import * as Joi from 'joi';
Validating env config at boot in NestJS
configuration
schema-validation
environment-variables
Intermediate
8 steps
php
<?php namespace App\Services\Checkout;
Validating coupons with Laravel's Pipeline
pipeline
chain of responsibility
transactions
Intermediate
7 steps
rust
use std::cmp::{Ordering, Reverse}; use std::collections::BinaryHeap; use std::fs::File; use std::io::{self, BufRead, BufReader, BufWriter, Lines, Write};
K-way merge of sorted logs in Rust
binary-heap
k-way-merge
streaming-io
Intermediate
8 steps
ruby
class UserAgentParser BROWSERS = [ [/Edg\/([\d.]+)/, "Edge"], [/OPR\/([\d.]+)/, "Opera"],
Parsing user-agent strings in Ruby
regex
pattern-matching
lookup-tables
Intermediate
8 steps
python
import time import uuid from django.utils.deprecation import MiddlewareMixin
Attaching per-request context in Django
middleware
request lifecycle
multi-tenancy
Intermediate
7 steps
javascript
function evaluate(expression) { const tokens = tokenize(expression); let pos = 0;
Building a recursive descent calculator
parsing
recursion
operator-precedence
Intermediate
8 steps
go
package api import ( "crypto/sha256"
ETag conditional requests in Gin
http-caching
etag
conditional-requests
Intermediate
6 steps
typescript
import { Inject, Injectable, Logger } from '@nestjs/common'; import { CACHE_MANAGER } from '@nestjs/cache-manager'; import { Cache } from 'cache-manager'; import { InjectRepository } from '@nestjs/typeorm';
A cache-aside country lookup in NestJS
cache-aside
dependency-injection
batch-lookup
Intermediate
8 steps
php
<?php namespace App\Services;
How a password strength validator works in PHP
validation
regular-expressions
data-driven
Intermediate
8 steps
ruby
class LogAggregator BUCKET_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M" def initialize(entries)
Bucketing log entries by the minute in Ruby
aggregation
hashing
enumerable
Intermediate
5 steps
rust
use std::f64::consts::PI; #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)] pub struct LatLng {
Building geographic bounding boxes in Rust
geospatial
value-types
option
Intermediate
7 steps
java
package com.acme.billing.config; import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnProperty; import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
Feature-flagged beans with Spring @ConditionalOnProperty
feature-flags
conditional-beans
strategy-pattern
Intermediate
5 steps
typescript
import { Injectable, effect, signal, computed } from '@angular/core'; interface Preferences { theme: 'light' | 'dark';
A signal-based preferences store in Angular
signals
state-management
persistence
Intermediate
7 steps