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Welcome, tech enthusiasts, startup dreamers, and coding virtuosos! If you’ve ever dreamt of creating your Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, then you’ve come to the right place. We’re excited to introduce our brand new blog series focused on helping you construct your SaaS offering using the LAMP stack for the back end and React […]
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How to Determine a Folder’s Size In Ubuntu and Linux
On a Unix-like operating system such as Ubuntu, you can use the du command, which stands for "disk usage," to find out how much disk space a directory and its contents are taking up. The following command will give you the total disk usage of a directory and its subdirectories ...
Read More »Three-Column View of News Articles Using Flexbox and TailwindCSS
In this example with Tailwind, we will create a simple three-column view that can be used for articles or other types of blog posts. And here is the HTML: <div class="flex flex-wrap justify-around md:container mx-auto mt-20"> <!-- Article 1 --> <div class="w-full sm:w-1/2 md:w-1/3 p-2"> ...
Read More »Login Screen with TailwindCSS
In this example, we will make a simple login screen using simple HTML and TailWindCSS. Here is what we will create: Here is the code itself: <div class="min-h-screen flex items-center justify-center bg-gray-50 py-12 px-4 sm:px-6 lg:px-8"> <div class="min-h-screen flex items-center justify-center bg-gray-50 py-12 px-4 ...
Read More »Escaping CSS Purgatory with TailwindCSS
Thirteen years ago, I embarked on my web development journey. CSS, the cornerstone of any website's look and feel, was one of the first languages I had to wrestle with. Back then, it felt like wrestling a particularly wriggly and evasive octopus! Taming countless lines of pure CSS was ...
Read More »Using Cron for Task Scheduling in SaaS Applications
When creating a SaaS, there will be tasks that will need to run in the background that the user will not see happening. These can be maintenance tasks, handling of use data, just about anything your mind can come up with. And you definitely don't want to be executing ...
Read More »Starting Your API Endpoint with PHP
Last time we convened, we got down and dirty with (https://catchylabs.com/2023/03/setting-up-a-new-website-on-your-lamp-stack/)[setting up a new website] on our ready-and-raring-to-go LAMP stack. Now that our server is primed and prepped for service, we're going to ramp things up a notch. We are delving into the process of creating an API endpoint ...
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