In a lot of web applications, emails play a significant role. If we create an online ordering system, we need to be confident that our users get a confirmation email. When our services include a mailing list, we want to make sure that the provided email is valid. We also might want to implement the […]
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 […]
By automating processes, we can ensure that they are performed at the right time and Git hooks can help us with it. Also, with JavaScript, we have a commonly used library called Husky. This article delves into how Git hooks work and how Husky helps us deal with them. The idea behind Git hooks With […]
Sometimes, when working on our project with Git, we might commit some code that we are not happy with. One of the solutions that Git provides to undo that is the revert feature. This article looks into how it works and what we need to look out for when using it. The idea behind Git […]
Sometimes when working with databases, we need to represent a range of values. For example, we might want to define a set of available numbers or a range of dates. One way to do that would be to create two columns that hold the bound values.
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CREATE TABLE events ( id serial PRIMARY KEY, name text, start_date timestamptz, end_date timestamptz ) |
Above, we are using the timestamp with timezone […]
When writing code, we can expect a wide range of errors to happen. We should handle it by writing our code with that in mind. Even though that’s the case, some errors might slip through the cracks. This article looks into what happens with unhandled errors both in Node.js and in the browser. Errors in […]
