Webhooks are a powerful tool that allow your SAAS application to send real-time updates to other applications. In this blog post, we’ll walk through the process of adding webhook support to your next app. A webhook is just an HTTP request to another server that gets automatically sent whenever some…

Today, lets see how to push Chargebee events to Apache Kafka using Upstash Webhook API. Once data is in Kafka there are many use cases how you can use it: Processing subscription events (with Apache Flink or Spark) to notify your business and sales team. Trigger notification such as sending…

Learn in detail about this instantSearchSDKJSBridgeClearHighlight error to know about why this occurs. — Recently at work, encountered this interesting error on Sentry logs and there were multiple events for this one so as usual started debugging. When Googled, landed on a StackOverflow Q&A which was the only post available regarding this issue. After going through all the answers and comments in Q&A, the…

Learn how to speed up your jest tests in GH Actions. — Recently at work, was working on optimizing the jest unit test case CI execution time for our front-end application. We are using GitHub Action that runs on every PR raised against master branch. Backstory At our current scale, it roughly takes about ~14mins to complete. We have this branch protection rule…

What are these pseudo-classes and how does each differ from the other — Today, we will be discussing focusable pseudo-classes supported by modern browsers, but before we dive deeper, it’s worth understanding what focusable and tabbable means in the context of CSS. Focusable Element The element will be focused by the script (element.focus()) and possibly the mouse (or pointer), but not the keyboard.

Learn how to publish NodeJS CLI application on the popular Homebrew package manager using Github — Homebrew is the de-facto package manager when it comes to macOS. It is quite easy to publish your projects on Homebrew without any ruby knowledge. A couple of years ago, I developed a small CLI utility called getfilesize-cli. It displays the file size in a human-friendly way. This package is…

GitHub Actions allows you to automate, customize and execute your software development workflows inside your repository. Let’s say we have two branches master and develop in our repositories following GitFlow methodology. We often encounter a situation when a hotfix is merged directly to master then those changes has to be…

Learn how to scaffold a new project using git template repository — As a developer, in this open-source era, we often try to explore the code base of libraries/frameworks/projects or mostly starter template for kick-starting projects. The most common way is to clone the repository using the `git clone` CLI command. But cloning a repository will download its entire git history with…

Today we will be focusing on how to keep our local node_modules up to date whenever the package.json is modified when we pull from remote or switch between branches. — As JS developer, when we work on projects we frequently need to run npm install command whenever we pull or checkout to a different git branch where package.json is modified. In majority of the cases, the dependencies won’t cause any issues, but if there any breaking change introduced by the…