Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) is an open source project currently being developed with an aim to provide real time, peer-to-peer communication between web applications. WebRTC provides simple JavaScript APIs that help developers to easily build web applications with real time audio, video and data transfer capabilities. This blog has been written assuming that the reader has zero knowledge of how WebRTC works and hence have explained the entire working in detail using simple terms and analogies wherever possible. Let’s get started!

Understanding Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)

As the social media trend continues to alter the face and infrastructure of the business world as we once knew it, the need to keep up with the demand for content management is at an all-time high. Companies are putting more and more energy and resources into this area in the form of Social Media Managers and Media Communications Representatives. This can get expensive and overwhelming, so finding resources that can help alleviate some of those responsibilities is in the best interest of individuals and companies alike.

A Quick Guide to Finding Open Source Social Media Management Software

Spring Boot is a microservice-based Java framework used to create web application. WebSocket API is an advanced technology that provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection. This article explains about how to implement WebSocket using Spring Boot.

WebSocket implementation with Spring Boot

Electron is an open source library to build native applications which also works as cross-platform desktop applications. It provision operating system functionalities with help of node integration. In this article, we will go through how to access the Operating System variables, Inter system communication, System dialog, Access files, folders also their statistics.

Electron JS- Native capabilities

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. It is pre-loaded with user authentication, content administration, site maps, RSS feeds and many more tasks. Security features provided are cross site scripting (XSS) protection, cross site request forgery protection, SQL injection protection, click-jacking protection, host header validation, session security and so on. It also provides in built caching framework.

Getting Started With Django Python Web Framework 

Nowadays on the web, Shopping is one of the most popular activities. Everyone can shop at their recess, anytime from anywhere. However, this is interesting that anyone can have their pages built to display their favourite products and services.

Laravel eCommerce Platform - Bagisto

Blockchain is buzzing across the world with its endless potential for disrupting a broad spectrum of the industries beyond the storage and transferring the values. Cryptocurrencies are revolutionizing variant industries and plenty of people talk about it with and their potential. Blockchain technology may have been made for bitcoins but it has immense potential for making the transactions secure and exciting. The technology is not ubiquitous but it already seems to be disrupting a huge number of the highly centralized industries that demonstrate practical use cases for changing the way businesses are done.

Blockchain Technology Will Revolutionize These Five Industries

The newly introduced concept of dependency injection in Angular version 2.0 makes it an attractive front-end technology all because of one amazing feature called 'Multi-Providers'. In general, it allows the users to attach certain operations by themselves and a few plugin custom functionality which is not required in our mobile app use case.

All About Multi-Provider Feature of Angular Version 2.0

When there is a requirement for having local storage for the desktop application context and data needs to be synchronized to central database, we can think of Electron with PouchDB having CouchDB stack. Electron can be used for cross-platform desktop apps with pouch db as local storage. It can sync those data to centralized database CouchDB seamlessly so any point desktop apps can recover or persist the data. In this article, we will go through of creation of desktop apps with ElectronJS, PouchDB and show the sync happens seamlessly with remote CouchDB.

Desktop Apps using Electron JS with centralized data control

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

Advance Solidity: Object-Oriented Design

Advance Solidity: Payments and Transactions

Beyond Fundamentals: Advanced Solidity

Understanding ACID Properties in MongoDB

Get to know how to perform CRUD operations in Mongo DB using Spring Boot.

Integrate MongoDB with Spring Boot

Spring Boot + GraphQL + MongoDB Integration

NativePHP: Developing Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with PHP

The best way to develop system health check screen, we can use server sent events API. 

System Health Check using Server Sent Events API

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

Build Simple ECommerce Site Using Lit

Developing reusable react component will help our project development faster and also reduce the code. It also helps other peer react developers. To develop react component in Typescript way, will make NPM package more standardized. In this article, we will build a reusable component and also learn how to publish it to NPM registry.

Create Reusable React Component and Publish to NPM Registry

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

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