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Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe

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Gatsby Functions open up a whole new world for front-end developers as they provide a way to write and use server-side code without the hassle of maintaining a server. You can see the src code here. You can find out more by visiting Queen Raae Codes. Once a checkout has been successfully created, the Stripe API returns a URL.

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Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress

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Because of its history and for being sort of a fork of an old blogging platform called “b2” (more details here ), it’s largely written in a procedural way (using function-based code). Before we delve deeper in the code, a couple more things about WordPress REST API. Large preview ). Working With WordPress REST API. Transients API.

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Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps?

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It’s just a matter of it’s you doing it, or if there’s a separate team doing it, but somehow you’re deploying code. Automated database failovers are a little scary because you don’t do them that often. What ends up happening is your code makes particular assumptions about the environment and those assumptions are no longer valid.

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