Blogs by Pratyay Mitra Mustafi

My Linux journey so far
Beginning story
It was during covid Lockdown my school was off and I was binge watching some YouTube videos on my windows desktop sitting and suddenly I had encountered with a video about Linux and riced ui stuff I was very much amused about how good...

How to Deploy Your Next.js Apps on Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare pages is the best alternative when it comes to serverless platforms like Vercel or Netlify . Because cloudflare pages is virtually free and unlimited where others are limited for 100Gb bandwidth. Also there is no limitation like no commerc...

A Guide to Using Hashnode API 2.0 for Showcasing Blogs on Your Website
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This is a Update of my previous blog on integrating hashnode blogs into your personal website which was based on hashnode's legacy api.
Hash Node will be closing the old api 1.0 in favor of new graphql based api 2.0
In this blog I am going to ...

How to Use Google Sheets as a Database: A Complete Guide
Introduction :-
Now you can use Google Sheets as a basic database to make your project work and prototype your project using google's inbuilt free api `Apps Script`.
Google's spreadsheet can store text, number etc. and you can receive data in json fo...

A Beginner's Guide to Using the 'UpiQRCode' Package
What is upiqrcode ?
upiqrcode is a npm package for generating custom NPCI-compliant BASE64 QR codes with UPI intent links by generating UPI QR codes with this package it's possible to scan these QR codes with all standard UPI payment apps.
Let's see ...

Guide to Integrating Hash Node Blogs in Your Next.js and React.js App
What are we trying to do?
We are trying to show our hash node articles in our personal react/ Next.js application for showcasing our works embedding hash node articles into our website will help us.
Increased traffic: When you embed a Hash node arti...

How to Build a PWA Using Next.js and Million.js
What is PWA (Progressive Web App)?
A Progressive Web App (PWA) is a type of web application that leverages modern web technologies to provide a user experience similar to native mobile apps. PWAs aim to combine the best of both worlds – the reach and...

Speed Up Compilation of React.js and Next.js Apps
Introduction:
Million js is a library that can be used to speed up the compilation of React and Next js apps. It does this by using a custom compiler that is optimized for performance. Million js also uses a custom virtual DOM that is more efficient ...

Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up a Free Self-Hosted VPN Using GitHub Education Pack
To set up a privacy-friendly free VPN we need to have a VPS hosted on a server or if you have a home server you can forward the ports you get while setting up OpenVPN in it but as most isp(internet service providers) uses CGNAT(Carrier-grade NAT) it'...