My first Tedx Talk: From Pain to Purpose – My TEDx Journey

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August 30, 2025 – A date etched in my life for more than one reason. Exactly 11 years ago , I got engaged. And on that very same date this year, I received a life-changing opportunity: my first TEDx talk , hosted at GGI under the inspiring theme “Chase the Impossible.” Standing on that red dot, I felt a mix of emotions — excitement , nervousness , and the quiet ache of loss , having lost my wife, whose memories remain deeply rooted in my heart. In my talk, I shared a story born in the midst of COVID-19 — a time when Ms. Renu and I were both navigating personal grief in different ways. It was during this difficult phase that Mr. Chaitanya brought us together — blending Renu’s deep nutritional expertise with my technical background . That collaboration gave birth to a vision: A platform that could reduce the time it takes to create personalized diets , enabling dieticians to focus more on care, empathy, and connection — and patients to avoid long queues and delays. What began in ...

Creating a Cypress boilerplate using Typescript

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  1. Install nodejs LTS 
  2. Install TypeScript globally
npm i -g typescript@latest
  1. Create a folder for testing in your project. Say CypressTypescript
  2. Run the following command to create a package.json
npm init
  1. Install Cypress
npm install cypress --save-dev
  1. Run cypress:
npx cypress open

Click E2E-testing to generate basic configuration files:



7. Click Continue in the next screen



  1. Create TypeScript config file in the cypress directory where package.json is located.
npx tsc --init

Add the following code in tsconfig:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "ES2015",
    "lib": ["ES2015", "dom"],
    "types": ["cypress", "node"]
  },
  "include": ["**/*.ts"]
}
  1. Change cypress.config.js to cypress.config.ts and replace the code with the following one:
import { defineConfig } from "cypress";

export default defineConfig({
  e2e: {
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      // implement node event listeners here
    },
    specPattern: 'cypress/e2e/**/*.cy.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}'
  },
});
  1. Create folder page-objects inside cypress folder.
  2. Create folders specs inside cypress folder.


Common practices and conventions that we should be following:

  1. All the tests should be created in e2e folder.
  2. All page objects will be create in page-objects folder. It is good to create further sub-folder if there are multiple pages.
  3. All specs should be created under specs folder. Again, sub-folders can be created based on the related specs.
  4. All fixtures should be created in fixtures folder. Create sub-folders for related jsons.
  5. Any custom commands should be written in command.ts
  6. All file names should be kebab-case. example: google-search.page.ts
  7. The page-objects files should be ending with .page.ts
  8. The specs files should be ending with .specs.js

Yay! Happy Coding.