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Building RajnitiReport – A Political Intelligence Platform for Nepal

· 20 min read
samundrak
JavaScript Dev

“Democracy thrives on information. RajnitiReport makes political history, performance, and accountability visible to all.”

1. Project Overview

RajnitiReport (publicly known as NepalTracks.com) is a comprehensive political analytics and civic transparency platform designed to empower citizens, journalists, and policy analysts in Nepal. In a landscape often characterized by opaque political processes, the platform aims to be a definitive source of truth, providing data-driven insights into the activities of elected officials, governments, and political parties.

Value Proposition:

  • For Citizens: Offers an accessible way to track the performance of their representatives, understand government actions, and participate in public discourse through features like polls and ratings.
  • For Journalists & Analysts: Provides a rich, queryable database of political information, from historical election data to real-time cabinet reshuffles, facilitating in-depth research and reporting.
  • For Policy-Tech Enthusiasts: Serves as a case study in building a complex, data-centric application with a modern technology stack.

The platform's core mission is to foster accountability and transparency in Nepali politics by making political data easily accessible and understandable.

Automating Social Media: A Deep Dive into the socialcontentmanager Module

· 11 min read
samundrak
JavaScript Dev

In today's digital landscape, maintaining a consistent and engaging social media presence is crucial for any organization. For projects dealing with dynamic data, manual posting can quickly become overwhelming. This is where automated social media management systems shine. This article explores the architecture and implementation of a socialcontentmanager module, a robust system designed to automate content generation and posting across various social media platforms, with a focus on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter).

The Core Concept: Modular Content Generation

At the heart of our socialcontentmanager module is a highly modular approach to content generation. Instead of hardcoding specific post types, we leverage an interface-driven design. This allows us to define a contract for what a "social media content" should be, and then implement various content types as separate, independent classes. This approach promotes reusability, scalability, and maintainability.

The ISocialMediaContent Interface

The ISocialMediaContent interface defines the fundamental structure and behavior expected from any content type within our system. It ensures that each content class can provide the necessary information (text, image, comments) for a social media post.

Visualizing Data the Right Way, Recharts + Tailwind Deep Dive

· 3 min read
JavaScript Dev

Overview

Visualizing data isn’t just about plotting numbers—it’s about telling stories that users can grasp at a glance. In this post, I’ll break down how I used Recharts in combination with Tailwind CSS and Mantine to create responsive, branded, and insightful charts for political and historical datasets.

My goal was to make charts that could:

  • Compare performance across time (votes, seats, etc.)
  • Use party logos as data points
  • Display multilingual tooltips
  • Work on mobile and large screens without losing meaning

Performance Improvement by useCallback, useMemo and React.memo

· 4 min read
samundrak
JavaScript Dev

React is fast on its own, It does a lot of work to make our web app more fast and smooth and on top of that today's browser engine is doing a perfect job to optimize the code we throw to them. v8 has TurboFan which does some next level of optimization. These are the things that are done for us by someone else but there is still a lot of things that we can do to improve our application. I will not write about web application performance and optimization process here because this note was specially written for optimizing React apps which uses hooks and I mentioned other things because sometimes we do overengineer in the name of performance, which I think I do sometimes (Premature Optimization).

I use React hooks a lot and many times I get stuck thinking about how I can make it work faster, which hook can be useful here to store data, memoize data, etc.