Hype Tech Journal #8

Dear Engineer,

In this issue, we deal with Stripe Checkout, SSL Pinning, API Contracts, Astro, etc. We bring you various tech events in December. We uncover best practices to improve PRs, some no-code development tools, which factors lead to satisfied and more productive developers, and much more!

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SSL Certificate Pinning is the process of associating a host with its certificate or public key. Once you know a host’s certificate or public key, you pin it to that host. Read this tutorial and learn what the certificate is and what information it holds.

In this tutorial, you'll take a look at how to set up Stripe Checkout to accept credit card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay payments without learning complex third-party APIs which require parsing through large amounts of documentation.

In this article, some best practices on how to create pull requests that are easy to review are provided. Learn how improving PRs can improve a team’s efficiency and outputs and then look at the best practices that can improve SDLC.  

Amplify Studio announced enhancements to responsive component design through Figma-to-Code. Learn how to build your variants and customize breakpoints so that it can generate React components with your design decisions already built in.

In this post, you can explore an approach to writing pragmatic API contracts in TypeScript that eliminates an entire class of bugs. The author explains this approach as lightweight, nonintrusive, and broadly compatible. Try his example repository!

If you’re creating an app, but don’t have the required programming expertise, here you’ll learn some of the best no-code development tools. These are programming styles and methodologies that don’t require coding and instead use GUI tools.

Astro is a tool for building static websites with your favorite JavaScript framework. But it will ship zero JavaScript to the browser. James Q Quick, a recognized developer, and teacher explained what is the major advance of this tool.

Building traditional native apps often require maintaining two or more codebases. Take a look at these two frameworks’ advantages and disadvantages and learn how they will let you keep your code unified.

Research shows that satisfied developers are more productive, and that good workdays increase job satisfaction. To learn which factors lead to good workdays, researchers collected self-reported data from developers. Here are the key findings.

If you are curious to know what scalability is, how we measure it, and what are the approaches to scale the software, then this post is for you. It covers the knowledge of the core concepts that you should know before any technical implementations.

The unpleasant task of delivering bad news is a common challenge. You can't render the experience painless, but you can make it easier for all parties, by delivering bad news in the three steps described in this article.

In the 1990s, Brendan Eich was working at Netscape Communications Corporation. He needed a scripting language for web pages that would be easy to use, so he created one himself: JavaScript. Take a look at the history of JavaScript.

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