Ankita Kulkarni's Blog

Over the past year, I've built and shipped multiple AI-powered tools from communication copilots to SaaS assistants that think, act, and scale like real teammates.

Fix the most common Next.js performance mistakes - from bundle bloat and data waterfalls to image optimization and font layout shifts.

Next.js 16.2 is a massive update.

Forms have evolved with the introduction of React Server Components.

Choosing the best framework is tough, isn't it?

A comprehensive guide to fixing common Next.js errors, including React component export issues, Client/Server component problems, and best practices for debugging Next.js applications.

Choosing the best framework is tough, isn't it?

Most early or newly promoted Leaders aren’t sure how to succeed.

Your users will not care what tech you used but how fast your app loads.

If you are tired of getting these hydration errors, finally learn why the hydration error occur.

Many devs team members leave because they don’t feel psychologically safe in their org or team.

This post discusses the challenges and workarounds for passing context with React Server Components in Next.js.

Are you an engineering leader struggling to manage your team effectively?

We often hear that React Native can hinder your performance as it’s not “pure native development.”

We often hear that React Native can hinder your performance as it’s not “pure native development.”

Your users will not care what tech you used but how fast your app loads.

Embarking on the journey to leadership is often met with questions about how to successfully seize opportunities and navigate challenges.

Most early or newly promoted Leaders aren’t sure how to succeed.

Covers 5 ways to use ChatGPT as an Engineering Manager.

Covers ways you can handle managing underperforming employees.

How you can manage up and take control of your career.

In this talk, I will cover why your switch to GQL and Apollo Client 3 should make you walk away from Redux.

These are some of the most common mistakes that new engineering managers that transitioned from individual contributor track make.

What's the difference between Next.js vs React and addresses frequently asked questions by developers.

This article shows you how to humanize the code review process, how to effectively create a pull request, how to give feedback on pull request and how to respond to feedback.

This post covers React Server and Client side components in-depth, some best practices, how to create shared components with code samples, differences between them and how it compares to Server side rendering in Next.js.

What Psychological safety is, how Engineering leaders can learn some strategies & best practices in teams and orgs to create psychological safety.

In this blog post, I will cover what SEO is, what are some best practices with SEO, provide you with real world SEO code examples in Next.js, screenshots of how your site will look like in a popular search engine like Google and you will take away some SEO

We often tend to visualize things 🔮 and concepts to understand them better.

We have yet again entered an uncertain time.

Next.js has gained a lot of popularity but do you know everything about it?

A good state management library should have the ability to manage side effects, transform data, and update state.

In this blog post, I will cover why your switch to GQL and Apollo Client 3 should make you walk away from Redux.

Even in today's world, handling asynchronous tasks is hard.

The best way to learn anything is to play with it on a project and build 👷🏼‍♀️ something.

Code reviews are an important part of a developer’s life.

As a developer, I’ve noticed ever since starting out that a lot of us are intimidated by building accessible apps.

Do you want to make your react application more performant?

While building for the web, you might be using aria labels to make your websites accessible although what about the native world?

Code reviews are an important part of a developer’s life.

Did you know React Native has accessibility rules?

Did you know React Native has accessibility rules?

Code reviews are an important part of a developer’s life.

If you are a React developer and know some basics of native development i.e. iOS or Android then you will pick up React Native easily i.e. not a noob.

In this talk, I talk about what does agile mean, what are the differences between scrum and XP and where they both shine.