Setting up Nodejs with nvm on WSL 2

May 22, 20212 min read 21 views

Installing node.js in WSL 2 (NOTE: Although this tutorial demonstrates WSL 2/Ubuntu, this installation is primarily for Linux) In this tutorial, we will use node version manager or nvm to install and manage node versions. nvm certainly has its advant...

Setting up Nodejs with nvm on WSL 2

Ditching Linux for WSL 2

May 14, 20212 min read 50 views

WSL 2 == Microsoft's love for Linux Development on Linux I switched to Linux last year and shifted my development completely to the Linux ecosystem. Tried out arch, Manjaro, Pop OS!, Ubuntu, MX Linux. Development is really productive with a Linux env...

Ditching Linux for WSL 2

How to setup Tailwind CSS JIT with NextJS

May 13, 20212 min read 1.3K views

The JAMStack The latest addition to the Tailwind project is the its just-in-time compiler that generates your styles on-demand as you author your templates instead of generating everything in advance at the initial build time. Here are the advantage...

How to setup Tailwind CSS JIT with NextJS

How to use Redis with Express

May 8, 20214 min read 228 views

Building an App that can cache Let's take a look at trying to build an app without Redis that caches response data. We can use a global variable. As soon as the process is terminated, the variable will be destroyed and as you see we no longer have a ...

How to use Redis with Express

How to install and set up Redis

May 3, 20212 min read 168 views

Redis Redis is an in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker that allows for incredibly fast read and write ops. We are going to see 3 ways of setting up Redis. I will be using Ubuntu 20.04 for this tutorial. 1. Ins...

How to install and set up Redis

Deploy a node server to Vercel!

Apr 26, 20211 min read 290 views

Vercel 😏 Vercel, the creator of Next js. But isn't that where you are supposed to host your frontend applications. Yes, but not just that! We can host node backend applications on Vercel. Vercel essentially allows running a server on Vercel. Deployi...

Deploy a node server to Vercel!