2024 Ecommerce Checklist: 10 Essentials for Your Online Store

The e-commerce landscape has evolved into a bustling marketplace, offering numerous opportunities for businesses to thrive online. The ease and convenience of online shopping have fueled a significant shift in consumer behaviour. Nowadays businesses must establish a strong online presence. It is essential to build an ecommerce store that facilitates transactions and serves as a vital tool for brand visibility and customer engagement. As we delve into the intricacies of building a successful online store, this blog will explore ten essential elements that can elevate you...

As we embarked on the deployment of a Laravel application using Vapor, we encountered an unexpected deviation from the documented process. The network, which was supposed to be automatically created during the initial deployment, failed to materialize. This unforeseen challenge necessitated a manual intervention, requiring us to navigate through the Vapor UI and meticulously configure a new network, specifying both the region and network name. Then we created a fixed publicly accessible database with minimum configuration (db.t3.micro - 2VCPU 1Gib RAM...

The Shopware app system provides a seamless and effortless way to extend and customize the platform, empowering developers to leverage well-defined extension points. With Shopware, you have the freedom to focus on the interface between your app and the platform, without getting caught up in the complexities of the underlying system. Whether you prefer a specific programming language or framework, you can utilize your existing expertise to build tailor-made solutions. The decoupling of Shopware and your app ensures excellent compatibility with the multi-tenant cloud system. By utilizing the Admin API and webhooks for communication, your app can seamlessly integrate with Shopware, facilitating efficient data exchange and event handling. This robust integration approach ensures that your a...

Dryer ERP is an agritech product that helps farmers and small scale business owners who run processing units for farmers. This application helps organise the data of the crops received in the processing units, the value of processed goods, the expense management, customers tracking, payment tracking etc. The problem: The farmers and the small scale businesses operating around farming industry are not using the best systems to increase their productivity and efficiency. It’s still done on paper and pen and a lot of information is getting lost and it really blinds the farmers on taking informed decisions or plan better for the next seasons. One of the problems we identified is keeping better track...

VOX AI Productions is a Finnish company specialized in providing high quality speech data in different languages collected from native speaking sources. Their customers are giant corporations who are in need of speech data for the game changing, futuristic innovations. The problem: VOX AI was using a Wordpress based solution which had a tedious process to collect and manage the data even though custom plugins were used. It also had a lot of manual work involved. The client wanted to steamline the data collection process both for its users and for the admins. The sampling of the audio files were not done properly and that was affecting the quality and long duraton recordings. The data storage was getting way too expensive for the client...

Docker is an open-source platform released in the year 2013, that makes it easier to deploy applications in a sandbox (called containers) to run on the host operating system. The use of containers has been escalated to the next level and it’s now become a part of the stack in most tech companies out there. This article focuses on how this platform can be useful from a web developer's perspective. Here’s an overview of some of the topics covered in this article: How does Docker help web developers? What is the difference between Docker and virtual machines? How to install it? Learn the bare essentials to get started with the technology. Create a simple PHP MySQL application with the same.

We had to make a shared property ownership financial assessment portal. The client was doing all the complex mathematical calculations in Excel. He wanted an application that could automate this time-consuming process. First, we had to understand how the client worked. Communicating complex excel formulas was the toughest part. We had to brush up our Excel and math skills to figure this out. But, we made sure that we had a solid understanding of the workflow before we started our work. The next challenge was to build an intuitive and user-friendly user interface. We built a wireframe that the client approved. Then we worked with our designers to create a few mock-ups and chose one that the client was really impressed with. We built the front end page using HTML, CSS, and Javascript a...

Recently I was trying to deploy a Laravel Application using Vapor. I wanted to deploy it to a subdomain. There were many projects deployed on several subdomains of our main domain. Since I wanted to deploy using Vapor which is basically serverless, there were basically no IP Addresses or URLs to point the domain to. I went through the Vapor Documentation about the domain section, but it said nothing about how to point the subdomain. So I contacted the Laravel Vapor support about my problem. They responded that I needed to add the main Domain to Vapor and the subdomain will automatically be added and no problem will happen to my existing subdomains after doing this. After their response, I added the main domain from the Vapor UI. PS: Thanks for the great support from

Converting a word file to PDF with proper formatting is not easy. I tried many packages in Laravel but they all gave me broken PDFs with messed up styles. I found an API called CloudConvert(https://cloudconvert.com/) that supports the conversion between more than 200 different audio, video, document, ebook, archive, image, spreadsheet and presentation formats. This helped me to convert the doc file to PDF format very easily without breaking any style. It's very easy to install and use in Laravel via composer.js "require": {"robbiep/cloudconvert-laravel": "2.*"} Run the composer install to download the required files. You need to publish the config PHP artisan vendor:publish Just enter your API key in config/cloudconvert.php Note: ...

TDD or Test-Driven development basically means splitting up the development tasks into individual units and then a test is written to ensure that this unit behaves as expected. We use the modern PHP frameworks like Laravel for web and enterprise web application development. Such frameworks make it easy to develop using Test-Driven development methods. When we do TDD, we write tests first for the next set of functionality that we add. The code is functional when it passes the test. One valid argument against TDD is that it increases development time since you have to write tests as you go. That's right - the development time will be higher, but it significantly makes debugging easier. This makes future releases much more reliable...