GitHub is a website that serves as a hub for millions of developers to collaborate on open source projects. It hosts billions of lines of code and acts as a platform for developers to share their software and report any issues they encounter. As a developer, understanding GitHub is crucial as it is a powerful tool that can improve your workflow and allow you to integrate other applications into your development process....
In this tutorial, we will explore how to use pm2, a powerful process management tool for Linux, to run and manage a Node.js app on a DigitalOcean VPS. Additionally, we will set up pm2 to automatically update and restart the app whenever changes are pushed to its corresponding GitHub repository. To begin, make sure you have signed up for a DigitalOcean account and created a VPS using the NodeJS image, which comes pre-installed with pm2 and Node....
When it comes to integrating different services in your code, utilizing webhooks is a common practice. But what exactly is a webhook? A webhook is essentially a POST request handler that awaits a call and performs a specific task once triggered. Here’s an example to illustrate how webhooks work. Let’s say I use Paddle as a platform to sell my Bootcamp course on bootcamp.dev. Every time someone signs up for the course, my webhook is called, providing me with JSON data that includes the customer’s email, name, and the purchased product....