Build a flexible structure once and forget about the repetitive logic later — When building a platform that will be available for potential users to register, we sometimes forget about some common practices that our clients want us to develop. One of these common procedures involves the password reset dynamic, which has to do with sending an email with a certain URL to…

Using an interchangeable API and caching results Along with the technology development, the need to migrate, or at least incorporate ecommerces to the business, plays a big role for companies of all sizes nowadays. This new modality aims for the clients’ comfort because they don’t have to go out of…

Using Django and PDFKit library I usually start my articles saying that it’s very frequent that developers have to do certain things, and this post won’t be the exception 😂 I bet that you had to generate files in PDF format for different circumstances, for instance: invoices or credit notes…

Grant access to endpoints using Django Rest Framework It’s very common in web applications that we have to develop modules that must be accessible only for certain users. This permission’s management can be as simple as letting the correct user access their profile, or more complex like creating a back…

Get flexibility without having several image fields Very often in projects, especially in ecommerces, the client wants to link an image to a product. Way too much time has passed by for me to learn that most of the time the requirement changes in the middle of the project: the…

Use different platforms according to your needs As we have learned in my previous post, there are a lot of benefits in concentrating all the code related with sending emails in one place, creating a base mailer which handles the creation and delivery of messages, and subclassing it to manage…

Easily modifying the content and changing email delivery platforms — When creating a web application, it is frequently requested to send emails: no matter if it has to be done when users sign up in our platform, or if they forget their password, or if a payment confirmation has to be sent after a purchase. …

Understanding v-model by binding an object — This post is about creating complex custom components that can be really helpful when developing the frontend of an application with Vue.js. There are some main concepts about Vue.js that I will skip to keep it short, but I will leave some links with resources throughout the article. V-model The…