Nanoc - A powerful web publishing system

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Nanoc is a static-site generator, fit for building anything from a small personal blog to a large corporate website. It is a tool that transforms content from one format, such as Markdown or AsciiDoc, into another format, usually HTML, and lays out pages so that the site’s look and feel is consistent across all pages. Static sites can be deployed to any web server. Static site normally fast, secure and versionable.

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fontello - Iconic fonts scissors

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Fontello is a tool to quickly pack vector images into webfonts. Consider it like Twitter Bootstrap, but for images. It builds everything necessary to include graphics into your web pages. Also, fontello has a big built-in collection of open source artworks.

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Ray - A unified framework for scaling AI and Python applications

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Ray is an open-source unified compute framework that makes it easy to scale AI and Python workloads — from reinforcement learning to deep learning to tuning, and model serving. Ray is a unified way to scale Python and AI applications from a single node to a cluster.

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Qwik - The HTML-first framework. Instant apps of any size with ~ 1kb JS

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Qwik offers the fastest possible page load times - regardless of the complexity of your website. Qwik is so fast because it allows fully interactive sites to load with almost no JavaScript and pickup from where the server left off. As users interact with the site, only the necessary parts of the site load on-demand. This precision lazy-loading is what makes Qwik so quick.

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Mitosis - Write components once, run everywhere. Compiles to Vue, React, Solid, Angular, Svelte, and more

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Mitosis is inspired by many modern frameworks. You'll see components look like React components and use React-like hooks, but have simple mutable state like Vue, use a static form of JSX like Solid, compile away like Svelte, and uses a simple, prescriptive structure like Angular. Write components once, run everywhere. Compiles to Vue, React, Solid, Angular, Svelte, and more.

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Laravel Paypal Integration - Smart button with server-side integration

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You would have seen a lot of blogs for paypal php integration with REST api which is driven completely in the backend. For checkout, paypal provides an easy way to checkout for client side ready-to-use smart button payment. This approach will work only from the frontend, which will not be safe and difficult to reconcile as the backend does not have any information about it. Server side integration with the paypal smart button will help us to reconcile or track the payments even after some issues in the users payment journey. In this blog, we have walkthrough the paypal smart button with server side php laravel integration.

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Data Fetching and Form Building using NextJS

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Next.js is one of the easy-to-learn frameworks for server-side pre-render pages for client-side web applications. In this blog, we will see how we can fetch data from API and make it pre-render pages. Also, let's see how forms work in Next.js and collect the data without maintaining the database.

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Data dumping through REST API using Spring Batch

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Most of the cloud services provide API to fetch their data. But data will be given as paginated results as returning the complete data will overshoot the response payload. To discover the complete list of books or e-courses or cloud machine details, we need to call the API page-wise till the end. In this scenario, we can use Spring Batch to get the data page by page and dump it into a file.

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Build Consulting Website using Next.js

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One of the popular web framework for building Single page application (SPA) or static site is React library. Application built with React packages will be rendered completely on the client side browser. If you want to reduce the load on client side browser, we need to pre-render the pages in server (Serer side rendering) and serve it to the client. So the client loads the page like simple html page. Also if the pages are rendered from server then search engine will be able to fetch and extract the pages. To do SSR for React, the best abstraction framework is Next.js. In this blog, we will explain how to build a simple consulting website using NextJS.

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React Media LightBox - Part 2

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In this blog, we will bring the essential features zoom control, download, fullscreen to enhance the view experience of the media items. Lightbox components provide options for captioning the media items as well. Brought all the features only with material design and there are no dependencies required for the functionalities of the media lightbox.

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Uber's open source technology stack

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Uber, a taxi aggregation platform operates around the globe. It was started as monolith application and later re-architected as bunch of microservices, which gives them scalability. Uber uses lot of open source tools and they have contributed quite a lot projects back to the community. This article is about analyzing Uber's open source technology stack.

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Stackoverflow Open Source Technology Stack

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Stackoverflow is one of most widely used Q&A platform. It is the default choice of developers. It has over 100 million page views in a month and its Google page rank is 60. Check out its open source technology stack, the tools used to build such a popular website. Stackoverflow uses open source projects and also contributes to it.

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Open Source Technology Stack used in WhatsApp

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WhatsApp is a most widely used cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia. Users can send text, images videos, audio for free. It almost replaced SMS. It changed the way people interact with each other. Lets check out the technology behind WhatsApp

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Free and Open source tools to build OpenJDK in Windows

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OpenJDK is the open source implementation of Java Standard Edition. Oracle (Sun) JDK implementation is going to be based on OpenJDK. OpenJDK and Oracle JDK are almost similar. There are ready made binaries available for Linux distribution but you may need to build OpenJDK on windows.

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Zimbra - Enterprise Email Server Stack

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Zimbra is a Enterprise messaging and collaboration software. It is a good alternative to Microsoft Exchange server. Zimbra is a Email Server but they have not written anything related to SMTP server, rather they have integrated well know open source email server in to its package. Zimbra is a system of well connected / integrated multiple open source software which delivers enterprise quality to it. This article explains most important components which helps to build the enterprise product.

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