Blogs

End to End testing in laravel with cypress

Submitted by Nicholas on Mon, 01/30/2023 - 11:47

The first time I heard someone mention 'Writing automated tests', I thought they were being funny, don't get me wrong, I was self learning (taught), and the person had taught us various debugging techniques and tools, including xdebug, dd, the browser among others; but I would later come to realize the funny guy wasn't being funny !.

Dockerizing your Shopify app

Submitted by Nicholas on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 14:20

When you generate a Shopify app, using their CLI tool, the generated app comes with a Docker file, you can use when developing or on production.
In this blog, we will explore what's required to develop a Shopify app in Docker, and later translate the same to a Docker instance on a production server with a real domain (URL).

When you run 'yarn dev (--reset)', after the app is generated, Shopify CLI takes care of the initial setup:

Reactjs in Drupal with WebPack

Submitted by Nicholas on Thu, 09/15/2022 - 10:23

Using create react app, is a lot like living with your parents.
In the way, you don't have the freedom to do what you want/wish unless you eject.

Content moderation in WordPress (wordpress apis)

Submitted by Nicholas on Thu, 07/28/2022 - 14:14

Last time we solved a real world problem (creatively), where we moderated the content published on a Drupal site, as we learnt some of the basics of Drupal apis (even though there are ways one could achieve this by configuring the available modules like rules and views). In this blog we will achieve the same, but in WordPress, just like saying hello in another dialect. But how do we do this in WordPress?

An introduction to Drupal apis (creative blog)

Submitted by Nicholas on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 08:00

The problem to solve: Imagine you run a community/social website, where users can comment on posts/comments' threads, but wanted to unpublish some comments based on some rules or company TCs. Maybe some slurs or anything around that. Now you could achieve this without code by configuring modules like rules and views, but our blog title has the word creative and Drupal apis in it: they also say Drupal is a framework and our title is not a clickbait; if you can count beyond ten, those are four reasons why we should solve this problem via custom code.