This article covers the conventional way of building full-stack applications and why manually building your backend is not always the best choice. You'll see an alternative solution for your backend needs that can be used standalone or coupled with your custom-built backend. The issues with the traditional backend…
This article illustrates how to share the Zod validation schemas between the server and client.…
Zod is a lightweight and powerful validation library for JavaScript and TypeScript applications. It enables you to define the structure of your data through schemas and validate the input data against those schemas. Although it can be used with JavaScript applications, Zod works greatly with TypeScript. Zod can automatically generate…
React Hook Form (RHF) is a library for managing and validating forms. It's a performant library that improves the app performance by reducing the amount of code you need to write and minimizing the number of re-renders. RHF is also super light having zero dependencies. Lastly, you can…
Sending transactional emails from a self-hosted Ghost instance requires you to configure the mail manually. Transactional emails refer to emails containing password resets, member invitations, signup and login links. If you have a Gmail account, you can use the Gmail SMTP server for free to send up to 500 emails…
Node Version Manager (NVM) is a tool that allows you to install and manage multiple versions of Node.js on your machine. It's useful when you work on various projects that use different Node.js versions. This article teaches you how to install it on macOS and the…
In this article, I talk about my experience as a speaker and attendee at my first developer conference.…
Git is a version control system developers use to track changes in their code and collaborate with other developers on projects. While you can use git from the command line, many developers prefer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) client to make their workflow more efficient. This article presents…