While developing our application, security should be one of our main concerns. One of the ways we can improve it is by implementing a two-factor authentication mechanism. This article goes through its principles and puts them into practice with NestJS and Google Authenticator. Adding two-factor authentication The core idea behind two-factor authentication is to confirm […]
So far, in this series, we’ve been using TypeORM to manage our data and connect to our Postgres database. In this article, we look into Prisma, which is a capable alternative. With Prisma, we describe our data using a Prisma schema file. It uses its own data modeling language and acts as a single source […]
As applications grow, the number of different entities also increases. A crucial part of learning how to design a database is creating relationships between them. This is because our entities will often relate to each other in some way. Relational databases such as PostgreSQL are an industry standard for quite some time now. Although there […]
Handling CPU-intensive operations with REST API can be tricky. If our endpoint takes too much time to respond, it might result in a timeout. In this article, we look into queues to help us resolve this issue. Queue proves to be a very useful part of backend architecture. With it, we can implement asynchronous and distributed […]
So far, in this series, we’ve used JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to implement authentication. While this is a fitting choice for many applications, this is not the only choice out there. In this article, we look into server-side sessions and implement them with NestJS. You can find the code from this article in this repository […]
Nowadays, a lot of web applications accept online payments. Although this is not straightforward to implement, there are some ready-to-use solutions that we can take advantage of. In this article, we look into Stripe. It serves as a payment processing platform that does the heavy lifting for us. To implement it, we use NestJS and […]
With Stripe, we can build advanced custom payment flows. In this article, we continue looking into it and save credit cards for future use. To do that, we need to have a more thorough understanding of how we can integrate Stripe with our system. Saving cards with setup intents Our goal in this article is […]
In this series, we’ve implemented a few different ways of charging our users using Stripe. So far, all of those cases have included single payments. With Stripe, we can also set up recurring payments using subscriptions. Recurring payments are a popular approach nowadays in many businesses. The users save a credit card and get billed […]
So far, in this series, we’ve interacted with Stripe by sending requests. It was either by requesting the Stripe API directly on the frontend, or the backend. With webhooks, Stripe can communicate with us the other way around. Webhook is a URL in our API that Stripe can request to send us various events such […]
In a lot of web applications, emails play a significant role. If we create an online ordering system, we need to be confident that our users get a confirmation email. When our services include a mailing list, we want to make sure that the provided email is valid. We also might want to implement the […]
