How and When to Use it! Introduction NGINX, pronounced ‘engine ex’, is a popular open-source web server software built to overcome the challenge of managing tens of thousands of connections all at the same time on one network. It serves as a gateway that stands between the internet and your backend…

Keeping up with the times! Any good React developer out there knows that react-router is an essential part of the tool kit. But are they keeping up with the times! React router 6 was recently released (a stable version released in late 2021), and although the changes have created a…

What are they for? HTTP requests are stateless, but there are situations where you need to store information to verify a user’s identity. This is necessary anytime you need to present user-specific information or allow user-specific access to your site. …

Why use Stripe in the First Place? The internet and modern computers have completely altered every aspect of how we share information. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than commerce. Our whole society has shifted to selling things online. From the battles of the big box retailers like Amazon and Walmart or the proliferation of mom-and-pop web…

What is Docker? Deploying a website or application can oftentimes be tricky. Sometimes everything can work perfectly when running in your development environment, but fall apart when launched in a new environment with different dependencies. That’s where docker components come in. Docker is a software development platform for building running and shipping applications.

A Brief Introduction What are DBMS? In layman's terms Database Management Systems, or DBMS for short, are a collection of programs that enable users to create and maintain databases. If you’re unfamiliar with databases imagine all the data stored by a library or a bank. A library would have a giant list of…

Using CSS @keyframe Animation Note: This article uses Javascript, HTML, and CSS with a focus on how to use @keyframe animation. It’s written by a beginner programmer for beginner programmers to be a simple starter guide. For more complex fully implemented examples consider checking out some of these articles…

The Keyword ‘this’ tends to be a tricky concept for new coders getting to know the ends and outs of javascript. ‘this’ exists in other languages but there are special edge cases when working in javascript. Strictly speaking ‘this’ represents the current execution context. What exactly that means becomes a…