Retail Ecommerce website can be created quickly with React. It can be created using React, Bootstrap, React DOM and Jotai. Data flow within the commerce site is done using Jotai in a light-weight manner. The main workflow of showing all the items in the gallery to user and user adding to the cart will be done as part of this blog. 

Build Simple Ecommerce site using React and Jotai

The best way to design a system for handling bulk workloads is to make it a batch system. If we are already using Spring, it will be easy to add a Spring Batch to the project. Spring batch provides a lot of boiler plate features required for batch processing like chunk based processing, transaction management and declarative input/output operations. It also provides job control for start, stop, restart, retry and skip processing also.

Getting Started with Spring Batch

Lightbox is a popular and widely used concept for showing the gallery of media files. It is a very impressive approach for the end user to glance through media files. Media files like audio or video will load the html audio or video controls.

React Media Lightbox

fd is a fast, simple, and user-friendly tool that simply performs faster than find. It isn't meant to be a replacement for find, but rather a slightly faster alternative that is easier to use. Let us explore fd command completely in this article.

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find

In Web development, there will be always a need to display content in a large list. Rendering a large list will slow down the web page load and increase the First Contentful Paint(FCP). Usually large lists are displayed in a paginated grid where user has to move around pages by clicking next. It will be good user experience, if the same page provides data of large list as and when we scroll.

React Window - Optimized way to display large list

AbanteCart is a free, open source shopping cart that was built by developers with a passion for free and accessible software. Founded in 2010 (launched in 2011), the platform is coded in PHP and supports MySQL. AbanteCart’s easy to use admin and basic layout management tool make this open source solution both easy to use and customizable, depending on the skills of the user. AbanteCart is very user-friendly, it is entirely possible for a user with little to no coding experience to set up and use this cart. If the user would be limited to the themes and features available in base AbanteCart, there is a marketplace where third-party extensions or plugins come to the rescue.

AbanteCart - Easy to use open source e-commerce platform, helps selling online

We show lot of data in our web applications, it will be awesome if we quickly download specific part of PDF rather than printing it. It will be easy to share for different stakeholders and also for focused meetings. In web application development, download to PDF means, we need to develop backend api specifically and then link it in frontend which takes longer development cylce. Instead it would be really great, if there is way to download what we see in the user interface quickly with few lines of Javascript, similar to export options in word processing application. 

Generate PDF from Javascript using jsPDF

Rowy an open-source platform to manage your data in an intuitive spreadsheet-like UI. Say goodbye to emailing that "vFinalFinal" Excel sheet. It helps to write Cloud Functions effortlessly in the browser, and connect to your favorite third party platforms such as SendGrid, Twilio, Algolia, Slack and more.

Rowy - Airtable-like simplicity for managing your Firestore data

Glific is an open source two way communication platform with primary focus on helping social sector organizations to interact with millions of beneficiaries concurrently through automated messages with rich media content and manual intervention wherever required. With Glific one can design flows to automate conversations, see how each of the beneficiaries is interacting with the bot and measure engagement.

Glific - Open Source Two Way Communication Platform for Social Sector Organizations

What if you could reliably run PHP without Nginx or Apache, but also without relying on its internal server? What if you could do async operations in PHP with true multi threading, fully taking advantage of multi core processors without hacks or a jungle of callbacks? What if you had drag and drop installation support for your PHAR packaged web apps in an environment identical to its production counterpart? Welcome to appserver.io – the worlds first open source application server for PHP.

Appserver.io – The First Multithreaded Application Server for PHP written in PHP

Bitcoin is an open source digital currency which could be transferred in a P2P payment network. It is decentralized and it is not controlled by any central authority or banks. It is transferred from person to person and no authority will be aware of your transaction. Its quite different from PayPal or Banks.

How Bitcoin works? A simple introduction.

Recently you might have seen many news that big organization like Redhat, Fedora, Wikipedia switched their database from MySQL. Now Google also going to join them. Why everyone want to move out of MySQL? It is once a popular and stable software. What is the reason behind and what are the possible alternatives.

Is it good time to switch from MySQL and choose some other database?

People who have taken programming as their career has to do coding for almost 30 years. Will they always get an opportunity to do complex tasks or to write project from scratch? The answer is NO. Sometimes they may get but not always. What should they do?

Why Experienced Programmers Should Contribute to Open Source

I could see many many students posting this question in many forums, I want to contribute to open source but How to contribute? There are many ways to do that. I have listed a few and I hope it might be useful.

How to contribute to open source

PrestaShop is an Open Source eCommerce Solution. It comes complete with over 310 features that have been carefully developed to assist business owners in increasing sales with virtually little effort. It is being used in more than 150,000 online stores.

PrestaShop - A feature rich Open Source eCommerce solution

What the benefit will i get, if i contribute to Open Source? This is the frequently asked question by many people. I just want to pen down the benefits which i know and i hope you will agree with it.

Benefits in contributing to Open Source

Open Source projects requires sponsors to fund their project. Few got good funding but few others are struggling to continue their project. A contributor, who does full time work in open source project requires funding to take care his needs. He has to be paid and he cannot do it for free. For those who don't get fund, check out this crowdfunding sites, these are exclusively for open source projects. Join these, get some fund and continue your dream.

Crowdfunding for Open Source Projects

You may require GBs of data to do performance or load testing. How your app behaves when there is loads of data.  You need to know the capacity of your application. This is the frequently asked question from the sales team "The customer is having 100GB of data and he wants to know whether our product will handle this? If so how much RAM / Disk storage required?". This article has pointers to the large data corpus.

10 sites to get the large data set or data corpus for free

Integrate Ehcache with Spring Boot. In this article, we will explore how to implement Ehcache with Spring Boot, including setup and a simple example.

Integrate Ehcache with Spring Boot

Supercharge Your Python Application: Redis as a High-Performance Cache

Caching in Java using Caffeine

Create Self Signed Certificate using OpenSSL Commands

Mkcert is go-lang project, which is super easy tool to setup certificate authority without any configuration. Using certificates are inevitable these days, data should be transferred in a secure communication channel. Buying a certificate is expensive and mostly companies buy certificates only for production systems. In Dev setup, if we use self-signed certificate then there will be trust errors. mkcert automatically creates and installs a local CA in the system root store, and generates locally-trusted certificates.

mkcert - No Config Certificate Authority Tool for Local Development

OpenSSL is a general purpose cryptographty toolkit that provides an open source implementation of Transport Layer Security(TLS) and Secure Socket Layer(SSL) protocols. It is written in C,assembly and Perl language but wrappers are available in all languages. This article explains about OpenSSL commands.

Holistic usage guide for OpenSSL

Mastering API Integration in React Native with Expo: A Comprehensive Guide

React Native Navigation and Routing with Expo: A Comprehensive Guide

In this detailed guide, we will walk you through the process of building a weather app in React Native using Expo. React Native is a popular framework for developing cross-platform mobile applications, and Expo simplifies the development process.

Building a Weather App in React Native with Expo: A Step-by-Step Guide

Setting Up React Native Development Environment for Android and iOS

How to setup and manage project in Jenkins

Git is the most popular SCM, initially developed to manage source of Linux kernel. Later many clients and tools are developed for Git. In this article we going to see various tools to use with Git.

Various tools to work with Git version control

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