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Zunaira Tarif

Here are the top 10 IDEs for React Native!

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React-Native-IDEs

React Native or RN, is a highly acclaimed JavaScript framework that Meta developers introduced in 2015. Since then, React Native has become a widely used technology for building native applications. A survey by Stack Overflow mentions RN as a leading library with 8.43% votes. 

However, React Native is not a standalone framework. It needs IDEs to optimize coding and development processes along different tech stacks. In this regard, Visual Code Studio, Atom, WebStorm, and Sublime Text are commonly used React Native text editors and IDEs. 

These integrated development environments (IDEs) aid developers in writing codes more efficiently. Also, they improve the productivity of the dev process. Therefore, this guide elaborates on one of the best IDEs for your React Native projects in detail.


Zunaira Tarif

Top 10 Backend Solutions To Know About

Backend Solutions to Create Your Next Application
Backend Solutions to Create Your Next Application

Software development conventionally consists of frontend and backend programming. Hereof, backend development is considered more crucial because it deals with complicated tasks. However, backend solutions made it quite easy for dev teams. 

Indeed, the use of backend solutions is rapidly growing with advancements in the programming world. Especially businesses rely on cloud computing services like BaaS and PaaS for quickly managing, deploying, and creating their backends. 

According to MarketsandMarkets, the BaaS market will hit 9.2 billion USD by 2028. This platform also anticipates that PaaS market share can reach 164.3 billion USD by 2026. This figure was only 56.2 billion USD in 2020.

Correspondingly, the selection of the right databases and server-side frameworks is also important. Therefore, this article shares one of the top backend solutions with their core properties.


David Ekete

How to build and deploy a Telegram bot?

In this article, you will build a Telegram bot with Node.js and Back4app’s backend-as-a-service. Then, you will deploy it using Back4app containers.

Bots are software that can perform automated repetitive tasks over a network or on a platform. Telegram bots are created using the Telegram bot API and are specifically designed to work on Telegram.

You can design Telegram bots to perform various tasks on Telegram, such as retrieving information like weather updates or news headlines and hosting quizzes for entertainment.

They can also automate tasks like scheduling reminders and perform simple user authentication, among other things.


David Ekete

How to Upload Files to Back4app

Effective file management is crucial when developing web applications that involve user file uploads.

Back4app provides an easy and efficient file storage, management, and retrieval solution mechanism based on Parse.

In this guide, you will learn how to store your files using Back4app by integrating its file storage capabilities with a React app.


David Ekete

How to build a reservation app with Vue?

Managing reservations is an essential part of business in the service industry, where scheduling and customer capacity are critical, such as restaurants.

With Back4app, the Twilio API, and Vue, you can build a simple restaurant reservation app with features such as making reservations, receiving confirmation messages, and viewing reserved slots.

In this article, you will build and deploy a reservation app with Vue on the front end, Back4app to handle your backend and deployment needs, and Twilio to communicate with users through Whatsapp.


Zunaira Tarif

The Best Backend Coding Languages in 2025

Whether you are a novice coder or an experienced developer, you must know the client-side and backend development concepts.

These development sides have their own series of technologies. Likewise, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and HTML are renowned frontend languages. However, the selection of backend coding languages is a challenge.

Indeed, while employing a backend language, it is essential to know it is compatible with your frameworks, databases, and server technologies.

Moreover, the learning curve, performance, supportive toolsets, and reliability also matter when it comes to finding perfect server-side coding languages.

So, in this article, we share one of the best backend coding languages with all their details.

Let’s begin!


David Ekete

Steps To Build and Deploy a Discord Bot

In this article, you will build and deploy a Discord bot using Node.js, the official discord.js library, and Back4app containers.

Discord bots are programs that perform automated tasks on Discord. These bots can interact with users, manage community conduct, and provide extra functionality unavailable on Discord by default, such as playing music, moderating content, organizing polls, and integrating with external services or APIs.


David Ekete

How to Deploy a Svelte Application?

How to Deploy an Svelte Application_
How to Deploy an Svelte Application_

In this article, you will learn how to build a web application using Svelte and deploy it using Back4app containers.

Svelte is a JavaScript framework for developing reactive and dynamic web applications. With the Svelte framework, you can build lightweight and high-performance applications because, unlike traditional JavaScript frameworks, Svelte moves a lot of heavy lifting from the browser to the build stage.


Zunaira Tarif

The Best Backend Technologies in 2025!

Backend Technologies
Backend Technologies

Choosing the right backend technology is crucial to building successful software projects.

Basically, an application consists of two parts: the backend and the frontend. As we begin with the frontend, it is the visible and accessible section of an app. 

However, the entire server-side infrastructure only operated by developers refers to a backend.

Yes, the administration of server-side functionalities, from scheming APIs and storing data to managing databases, is known as backend development.

In this regard, a backend programmer must deal with servers, logic and databases. 

Although it sounds easy to employ server-side technologies but, in reality, it is hard to shortlist frameworks, databases and BaaS solutions for backend development.

Therefore, this article presents one of the top-notch backend technologies with their core credentials.


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