How to add HTTPS/SSL Certificates to a WordPress Website
Here is a short guide on how to add HTTPS / SSL Certificates to your Wordpress website. It uses Certbot and Let’s Encrypt to manage and auto-renew certificates.
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Building Server-rendered React Apps with NextJS
In this post, I’ll explain what NextJS is, and how you can use it to build a server-rendered React web application and deploy it to production.
Getting started with NodeJS and Kafka
In this tutorial, I’ll talk about how I set up Kafka to provide website analytics and event tracking for a web application. For my use case, I wanted to store and process raw event data in real-time. With Google Analytics, you can’t do that. Enter Kafka.
A simple way to render React on the server
Update (Mar.29, 2018): I now recommend using NextJS to build server-rendered React applications. Read more about it here. This tutorial will explain the simplest way I have found to server render React components, fetch data, and share component state and props between server and client. You don’t need anything complicated. It’s actually very easy and […]
How do Express.js Sessions work?
Every web application in the world that maintains user data has to deal with sessions. As developers, we need to know what they are and how to use them. This post explains how sessions work in Express.
The JavaScript Engineer Skill Tree
If you took all the skills that a intermediate to senior JavaScript Full Stack Engineer required to be productive and successful and mapped them out, what would it look like? In my opinion, it would look like the Skill Tree below. It looks pretty intimidating, doesn’t it? Some of those branches can be entire professions (like Testing, […]
Six best practices when building REST APIs
Six quick tips which will help you build more maintainable CRUD-based APIs.