15Jan

Forget About Auth0: Implementing Authentication with Clerk.dev in Your Next.js App

Clerk.dev is more than just an authentication tool; it’s a comprehensive platform designed to simplify and enhance user management and security in web applications. With a focus on developer experience and application flexibility, Clerk.dev emerges as a robust alternative to more traditional solutions like Auth0. Let’s explore its standout features and advantages.

27Jul

Creating Our Own Chat GPT

In June, OpenAI announced that third-party applications’ APIs can be passed into the GPT model, opening up a wide range of possibilities for creating specialized agents. Our team decided to write our own chat for working with GPT4 from OpenAI and other ML/LLM models with the ability to customize for the company’s internal needs.

27May

How to Build Real-Time Applications Using Node.js and WebSockets

Real-time chat applications are all the rage these days, and I can see why. They’ve transformed the way we communicate, collaborate, and socialize, making it easy to send and receive messages instantly. That’s why I’m excited to show you how to create your own real-time chat application using WebSockets and Node.js.

26May

Working with Jotai as your next state management in React

Despite being efficient and scalable, most common state management needed additional boilerplate code on setup. As a developer who is continually looking for efficient and user-friendly options, I came across Jotai, a minimalistic state management tool that can be used in constructing scalable react applications. In this tutorial, I will walk you through the Jotai library as well as teach you how to utilize Jotai to build a simple application.

14May

How And When To Debounce And Throttle In React

In React applications, certain user interactions can lead to performance issues, such as slow loading times and unresponsive UIs. For example, making asynchronous requests triggered by user input on every keystroke can overload the web server and cause it to crash, or slow down the webpage if the user is typing too fast.

07May

Mastering JavaScript Proxies: Practical Use Cases and Real-World Applications

This article will briefly revisit the concept of JavaScript Proxies and their purpose. We will then dive into a series of practical use cases, providing detailed code examples and clear explanations along the way. By the end of this journey, you should have a comprehensive understanding of how Proxies can be used to solve various problems and optimize your applications.

02May

Securing Node.js Applications with JWT and Passport.js

JSON Web Tokens (JWT) is a compact and self-contained technique for securely transferring data between parties as a JSON object is defined by the open standard. They are useful for authorization and authentication. They are useful for authorization and authentication.