Let’s build a chat application with Pusher’s API
Why Pusher?
Pusher provides a number of affordable, easy to use APIs to add Realtime functionality to Web applications. From Realtime communication that allows users send instant messages to each other to Realtime location that allows users know the exact location of their packages anywhere in the world, Pusher makes it easy for businesses to focus on their core competencies while leveraging the power of Pusher to scale their application.
Here’s a sneak peak of what we’ll be building.
If you somehow missed the first part, you can read it here!
After Dinner, I was tired and exhausted but Rupesh, Vivienne and Judith were determined that none of us would go to sleep early that night and we were all going to play games and eat the cake from Seyi’s birthday. And so we did! — Always have people on your trip that have insane energy. It lifts everyone else. Our friends at Beniemania were kind enough to provide us with games for this trip. We played Game Culture’s in twenty five seconds. I always have a good laugh…
It has taken me a while to get to this article but here goes!
Everything you need to know about the first Day of my Trip to Osun State. Day 1 covers exploring Ife.
The Gallivanter traventures(click to follow on ig) planned my most recent trip and this time, we were off to Osun — the home of Odùduwà.
I decided to go on this trip because at N35k it was the cheapest Osun trip I had seen anywhere on Instagram and more importantly because it was planned by my friend — Victoria! …
This article was first published on the Aeeiee Blog.
React, the frontend framework created at Facebook in 2013, with over 165k GitHub stars is now one of the most loved Frontend frameworks used by JavaScript developers. React is a powerful framework that allows developers to create re-usable code blocks called components, use the Virtual DOM to update DOM elements — making web apps more performant and has a huge collection of libraries to make the lives of developers easier.
WordPress on the other hand was created 10years before the first version of React was released and this powerful, feature-rich framework…
I recently built a project that required integrating with Paypal to collect payments from users. After spending hours trying to implement Paypal payments using the Paypal JavaScript SDK, I realized that this was going to be an uphill task. Thankfully, I found an NPM package that already abstracted the SDK into React components for us to use. In this article, I’ll show you exactly how to collect payments using Paypal in your React application.
Getting started — setup your Paypal account
First steps first. Head over to PayPal to create an account. Once done, head to the PayPal developer screen.
Getting your credentials
Next step is to grab your credentials…
If you missed Part 2 of this story, you can read it here and You’re welcome to also read the First Part!
Day 2
After an eventful First day where we almost ended up sleeping on the streets because our hosts were asleep by the time we got back, Sunday was another opportunity to explore IB! On our list for the day were Cocoa House, Mapo Hall and Agodi Gardens.
I was up around 6:00am, came down at around 7:30am. I met Victoria already awake and chilling in the Sitting room. I sat with her and we talked about random things; Life…
If you missed Part 1, you can find it here.
The trip from Moniya station into Bodija took around 25mins. Thankfully, Seyi has a family house in Ìbàdàn and had offered to lodge us for the weekend.
When we got to the Estate, the security men wouldn’t let us in. Seyi tried to explain that it was his house and that he was the son of the owner but the security weren’t having it. They insisted we called the person inside to call them. Eventually, the security called one of Seyi’s uncles. Here’s how that went;
Security: Good afternoon sir…
Everything you need to know about taking the train from Lagos to Ìbàdàn.
I have to start this from the very beginning. I was scrolling through Instagram a couple of weeks ago and saw @bolanle’s post on taking the train to Ìbàdàn. I sent DMs to my friends - Seyi, Benie and Victoria and they were all down to go!
This is probably the easiest trip I’ve ever tried to plan. Everyone was down from day one and no one bailed.
Here’s timeline of our Ìbàdàn trip and how it all went down.
Trains
We all met up at the Railway station in Yaba. Seyi, Benie and I arrived at 7:50am because Victoria had…
Ever needed to collect simple form data from users on a landing page and have a nice UI to show that list on? MailChimp is for you! And here’s how to setup a MailChimp mailing list with Ruby on Rails!
What you’ll need
- Rails 6 installed
- Ruby installed. You can follow my article on how to get Rails setup on your machine.
- A MailChimp account
Initial Setup — Ruby on Rails
- Create a new rails API using
rails new mailing-list-app --api --database=postgresql. Once your rails application is setup, runrails db:create db:migrateto setup your postgres database. - In your terminal, run
rails sand navigate to http://localhost:3000 to…
With LocalStorage
There are a number of ways to persist users in a React or Single Page Application. A lot of times, devs generally use localStorage to store user data and load the data from there when required. While this approach works, it’s not the most effective way as it leaves users vulnerable to attacks. Using cookies is a little safer although it’s still not the safest option. Personally, I prefer a mixture of using cookies and JWT’s(JSON Web tokens) with expiry to persist user session and to force a user to re-login when their session expires. …
Adebola Adeniran
Full-stack Engineer. Rails/Node.js/React. I love plantain chips! Reach me at Adebola.dev.
