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Auth in Web - Cookies Vs Storage

Nov 8, 20209 min read

Hello Everyone👋, Today we will be seeing about cookie vs storage and how to setup the auth in the web app. When it comes to Authentication there is always a confusion choosing between Cookie and Storage to save the token. Cookies: Cookies are text f...

Let's build a video conferencing app

Oct 31, 202011 min read

Hello Everyone👋, In this article we will see how to build a video conferencing app. Prerequisites: Basics of Webrtc To implement this we will be using the following libraries: React Nodejs simple-peer socket.io chance Setup Server: touch app.js ya...

Let's Build a Collaborative Rich Text Editor

Oct 24, 20206 min read

Hello Everyone👋, In this article we will see how to build a collabrative rich text editor. If you already know how the collabration works realtime feel free to skip the theory section. Theory: To build a collabrative one we need to know how to handl...

Tagged Template Literals

Oct 16, 20201 min read

Hello Everyone 👋, Tagged template literals is an es6 feature which allow you to tag a template to a function. If you are from react/graphql world you would have seen the below syntax. https://gist.github.com/Kannndev/560dec48ae205c793372ee000af90d4c...

Node Js Worker threads

Oct 9, 20202 min read

Hello everyone 👋, Worker threads help us to perform heavy synchronous operations without blocking the main thread. We should not be doing the I/O operations in workers because Nodejs's main threads handle I/O operations better than workers. The go...

Kafka Microservices using Nest Js

Oct 1, 20204 min read

Hello All, Hope you are doing well. In this article, we are going to learn about how to set up a microservice using NestJs and Kafka. Why did I start writing this? I recently wanted to set up one and I was struggling to find a good example. After h...