A comparison between source control, CI/CD tools and cloud providers for storing application secrets. I’d really be surprised if you’d tell me that your web application is truly independent. Web applications cannot be imagined without integrations and every application needs to connect to peer microservices, external services, databases, file stores…

Containers have become the preferred way to package & deploy cloud applications. Azure’s Container Instances (ACI) brings a minimal orchestration alternative to their Kubernetes Service (AKS), which can be ideal for small & mid-sized applications. Similarly, automated and bug-free provisioning of cloud resources has lead to rising need for Infrastructure as…

Having been only one or two years in the market, GitHub Actions has drawn a respectable amount of popularity. Housing >80% of the source-codes in the community and with the increasing need for CI/CD, GH actions was rather late to the race but growing rapidly. Many teams are migrating their…

A while ago, I wrote an article on how to create a chat app in flutter using a socket.io service. This application connects users to a websocket service and enables real time conversation. While the users can chat when they are online, the application disconnects them from the websocket when…

Flutter has very quickly found its way to the topmost choice for a mobile app development framework. It is undoubtedly very neat, expressive, flexible & fast. There is plenty of prebuilt packages available to create almost any type of layout in flutter. In this tutorial, I will help you create a…

This post will help you to create a Chat Server with NestJs + socket.io + MongoDB. We will develop the service in NestJs, expose the WebSocket gateway using socket.io & store the messages in MongoDB. Follow the steps below: Step#1: Create a NestJs project I prefer to use Nest CLI for the same. If you…

Let’s face it, we think of deploying our applications on cloud for FREE every time we are ready with a few features, be it to enable other applications to integrate with our APIs or to demo the features to our stakeholders. When picking a cloud provider, Azure probably is alluring the…

PassportJs is one of the best authentication middleware libraries for NodeJs applications. It supports more than 500 authentication strategies including the most common strategies like username-password, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. …

Now that we are always connected to the internet, do you really need to setup a local environment (read: database) for your projects? MongoDB is undoubtedly the most popular, and probably one of the fastest-growing NoSql databases in the market. It is an open-source, document-oriented database that provides high scalability…