So far, in this series, we’ve interacted with Stripe by sending requests. It was either by requesting the Stripe API directly on the frontend, or the backend. With webhooks, Stripe can communicate with us the other way around. Webhook is a URL in our API that Stripe can request to send us various events such […]
In this series, we’ve implemented a few different ways of charging our users using Stripe. So far, all of those cases have included single payments. With Stripe, we can also set up recurring payments using subscriptions. Recurring payments are a popular approach nowadays in many businesses. The users save a credit card and get billed […]
With Stripe, we can build advanced custom payment flows. In this article, we continue looking into it and save credit cards for future use. To do that, we need to have a more thorough understanding of how we can integrate Stripe with our system. Saving cards with setup intents Our goal in this article is […]
Nowadays, a lot of web applications accept online payments. Although this is not straightforward to implement, there are some ready-to-use solutions that we can take advantage of. In this article, we look into Stripe. It serves as a payment processing platform that does the heavy lifting for us. To implement it, we use NestJS and […]
So far, in this series, we’ve used JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to implement authentication. While this is a fitting choice for many applications, this is not the only choice out there. In this article, we look into server-side sessions and implement them with NestJS. You can find the code from this article in this repository […]
Handling CPU-intensive operations with REST API can be tricky. If our endpoint takes too much time to respond, it might result in a timeout. In this article, we look into queues to help us resolve this issue. Queue proves to be a very useful part of backend architecture. With it, we can implement asynchronous and distributed […]
We often need to allow our users to perform various delicate operations. They often can’t be undone, which might have dire consequences. Therefore, the good idea is to prompt the user for confirmation. Across our application, the above case might happen frequently. Creating a separate confirmation modal for each of them is far from ideal. […]
TypeScript is getting more and more popular. Therefore, it is a great time to start using it if you haven’t already. Chances are, our project has been developed for quite some time. If that’s the case, the best approach could be to introduce TypeScript to the codebase gradually. We might encounter a case where we […]
As applications grow, the number of different entities also increases. A crucial part of learning how to design a database is creating relationships between them. This is because our entities will often relate to each other in some way. Relational databases such as PostgreSQL are an industry standard for quite some time now. Although there […]
So far, in this series, we’ve been using TypeORM to manage our data and connect to our Postgres database. In this article, we look into Prisma, which is a capable alternative. With Prisma, we describe our data using a Prisma schema file. It uses its own data modeling language and acts as a single source […]
