Ruben Dinis

Intro At Talent Protocol, our mission is to empower our community to succeed and we’re doing it by building in public. We want others to be able to leverage what we’re building and our data and so to facilitate this, we’ve developed a user-friendly API for seamless interaction and integration! Talent Protocol is a builders network where members commit to future goals, share their progress, and find the support they need to succeed. So, what is an API? An API is an interface that connects one system to an...

You write a piece of code, and you know it works. You just wrote it. You just ran it…Six months pass. It is time to refactor your code. You would kill for some tests. — Swizec Teller, You don’t need tests Introduction Tests are important, they give developers the confidence to change the codebase and they reduce the friction of delivering new features. They make the codebase maintainable and easy to change which is really important in the long run. They are also great for documentation and help onboardin...

Introduction In this article I will talk about developing a real time chat. You can check the chat working in this video. I will use Django Channels on the API side with React and Websockets on the frontend. Here is an image explaining the message flow between the API and the frontend: Requirements API python 3 pip redis-server PostgreSQL Frontend yarn Setup API You can check the API code here. Then execute the following commands to run the API: $ brew install python $ brew install redis $ pip3 inst...