Handcrafting email templates can be a challenging task, but with tools like React Email, you can easily build and customize email templates with confidence. In this blog post, we will explore how to use React Email to create custom transactional email templates, using a simple Next.js application with a signup form as an example. Setting...
AI is here and as developers, we need to use it to empower us in our work. How can we use tools like the OpenAI SDK with generative images and language models to create a completely custom person or character? What is OpenAI? OpenAI is a currently non-profit organization focused on AI research. They’ve made...
Databases are a critical, sometimes painful, component of a website or app. We need a way to store information to build personalized experiences, but databases can be complex and tricky to pull the data we need efficiently. Enter Xata, which takes a new approach storing data automatically in multiple types of stores (relational DB, search/aggregations...
Passwords are becoming a thing of the past, where using social logins or emails gives your visitors a simpler and safer way to log in. But that ultimately comes with a lot of complexities, where we can instead use Clerk to manage it all in one easy-to-use SDK. Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Clerk...
NextAuth.js has easy out-of-the-box authentication, but if you want to BYOD (bring your own database), your stuck with a few existing Adapters or figuring our your own solution. How can we build a Custom Adapter so we can persist our authentication sessions with a performant database like HarperDB? Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by HarperDB...
Building the web is hard. The web revolves around content, but when building things, we might not have the content yet! To solve this, let’s build a custom image placeholder service with serverless APIs so we can carefully craft our experiences while waiting for our content to be delivered. What is an Image Placeholder Service?...
Images help create visual experiences, but loading that media can slow page loads due to high file sizes. Instead we can take advantage of placeholder images like BlurHashed images to still deliver a great experience while deferring the loading of the full source. We’ll see how we can add custom processing to Cloudinary using BlurHash...
Images and video are a great way to create visual experiences, but when dealing with large amounts, it can be difficult to manage without tools to provide things like searchability. To help, we can use the power of AI, to categorize and label our media as we import them into our project with tools like...
Automation typically includes purely code-based tasks that don’t even think about a browser, but some tasks need to interact and use the browser as a human would like performing a search on a site. How can we leverage tools that can automate the browser and pack it into a serverless API endpoint to make easily...
Tests are critical part of any codebase, making sure our application is behaving as expected, but how does that apply to testing APIs like Next.js serverless functions? While there are great tools like Postman that can make actual requests to an endpoint, how can we test the code that actually gets executed inside of the...