Integration tests are one of the most reliable methods to harden your app, but it’s missing one thing… what the visitors are actually seeing in the UI! How can we use Visual Regression Testing to level up our integration tests and gain confidence in our work? We’ll take a look at Applitools Eyes and how...
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...
Optimizing images is a critical part of building great experiences for the web, but what else can we do for maximum performance? We’ll use Next Cloudinary to automatically optimize images, serve them responsively, and dynamically crop them with AI to deliver the best experience we can for our visitors. What is Next Cloudinary? Next Cloudinary...
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...
Having a Headless CMS gives us a lot of flexibility for how we build apps and display content, but with our frontend decoupled from our backend, it won’t automatically stay up to date. To fix this, we can use Next.js Incremental Static Regeneration to keep our content fresh with configurable cache invalidation. What is a...
Apps like Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok made adding fun filters to your photos easy. But what if you wanted filters in your own app? We can use Cloudinary with pre-built and custom filters on top of using existing device’s webcams to liven up the experience for our customers. What are photo filters? If you’ve used...
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...
The web is full of awesome APIs that we can use to add feature sto our apps, but often using those APIs includes a long process of registering an app and figuring out authentication so you can simply make a request. With Netlify’s new API Authentication, we can easily enable third party services and instantly...