Published in Medusa·Nov 10, 2022Medusa Webhooks: The Best Technical Project of the Medusa HackathonExtensibility is one of the core features of Medusa, an open source headless ecommerce engine, and it has enabled developers to create plugins for Medusa. This infinitely increases the potential for what can be done with Medusa. Webhooks are web requests that are triggered on certain events. They allow applications…Open Source4 min readOpen Source4 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Aug 31, 2022How to quickly create a Gasless NFT Collection on Solana with CandyPayLet’s say you are an NFT creator and want to publish your NFT onto the Solana blockchain quickly. This can be time-consuming as it involves creating the collection, setting up a minting website, etc. …Solana Network5 min readSolana Network5 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Aug 17, 20225 Modern CLI tools that help boost your productivityAs developers, most of us use the terminal to interact with our computers for many tasks as we find it more productive. We are familiar with commands like ls, cd, cat, grep, and find. …Command Line4 min readCommand Line4 min read
Published in Geek Culture·May 16, 2022Make a beautiful Connect Wallet Button with RainbowKit and ReactAuthentication in Web3 is extremely easy but supporting all the wallets and making a nice UI can be painful and time-consuming. Thankfully, there are many libraries which makes this extremely easy as well. Today we are going to be looking at adding RainbowKit to a React App. What is RainbowKit? RainbowKit is a…Web 34 min readWeb 34 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·May 10, 20225 Amazing React Component Libraries to Consider for Your Next ProjectAs web developers, it is often quite hard and time-consuming to make accessible UIs. This gets even worse when we have to make special components like Modals or Popovers from scratch. Thankfully, the React ecosystem is huge and there are many great people who have made amazing libraries to help…React3 min readReact3 min read
Published in Geek Culture·May 4, 2022Amazing preview images with Next.js and LQIP ModernImages take a long time to load and can have a disruptive impact on UX. Today we are going to be looking at creating preview images with a library called lqip-modern. What is LQIP? LQIP simply stands for Low Quality Image Placeholders. They have extremely small file sizes and act as placeholders for…Lqip5 min readLqip5 min read
Published in Better Programming·May 2, 2022Build Your Blog App With Directus, MDX, and Next.js On-Demand ISRDisplay blog posts and content on your own website — There are many Headless CMSs out there and many other tools that let us make a blog easily and quickly. Today we look at building a blog with Directus and Next.js. We will use MDX to store our blog content in Directus. We are also going to use Next.js’s on-demand…Programming9 min readProgramming9 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Apr 4, 2022Introducing XdoX — Start Challenges, Log your Progress and Show them off to the World🤔 What is XdoX? XdoX is a web application that lets you start challenges and log your progress every day. You are also able to show your progress to the world via your unique profile page. These challenges can be anything from 100DaysOfCode to 30DaysOfRust to even 60DaysOfCooking! It is also my submission for…100 Daysofcode6 min read100 Daysofcode6 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Mar 26, 20225 Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts to boost your productivityBrowsers have become an integral part of our life and most applications are web-based now. We use web browsers for everything, from asking a question on Stackoverflow to booking a flight ticket. We often end up having a huge number of tabs open and it becomes quite hard to keep…Productivity3 min readProductivity3 min read
Published in Better Programming·Mar 10, 2022Powerful Code Blocks With Code Hike and MDXAdding code hike to a Next.js application — MDX is a format that combines markup in markdown along with JSX code to embed components into markdown documents. It is used in documentation, blog posts, and much more as one can add interactive examples with JSX. You can learn more about it here. Today, we are going to look…Nextjs4 min readNextjs4 min read
