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You’ve got a great idea for a mobile app but there’s just one problem: you don’t know how to build mobile apps! Sure, you can make something on the web, but you want the distribution of app stores, not to mention the speed and performance of a
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Telegram Mini Apps (TMAs) are fully-featured applications that run directly within the Telegram platform, combining the capabilities of bots with the flexibility of custom interfaces. In this guide, we'll walk you through creating a complete, full-stack TMA that includes user authentication and file storage using Pinata's
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IPFS has come a long way since its release almost ten years ago, but even to this day using the raw implementation libraries can be difficult. Uploading files requires running your own IPFS node and then interacting with its built-in RPC API, not to mention you would have to configure
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If there’s one thing Pinata loves, it’s hackathons. It’s not only because Pinata was born out of a hackathon, but also because it’s where we see unfiltered ideas and creativity from some of the undiscovered and brightest developers of the future. HackUTD 2024 was no exception,
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Building modern web apps often follows a familiar structure, with developers typically having the necessary tools in mind. Many websites today are simple CRUD applications: a front-end client authenticates users and sends requests to a server that updates a database. Files also play a significant role, supporting rich media experiences
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There’s no doubt that AI has completely changed the way developers write code. Before LLMs became popular, you had to Google your problems and crawl through endless Stack Overflow pages looking for solutions. Nowadays, you can find answers in ChatGPT, Claude, or even directly in your text editor, like
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If you’ve never used Gumroad before, it’s a platform that allows users to sell digital content. Something key to building such a platform is keeping the gated files secure, and that’s exactly what Pinata’s new Files API does. With that said, when we saw the below
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Node.js completely changed the JavaScript ecosystem, but not without its own issues. Even the creator of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, admitted later on that he had his own regrets over the design of Node. That’s what eventually spurred him to start Deno (if those letters look familiar, '
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When I was first getting started in web development, I remember seeing someone's website and was immediately impressed by one thing: a guestbook. You could sign in with Github and leave a message, similar to someone's Facebook wall back in the day. I thought that was
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