Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed last week's article! I am back with another one as this week's scoop 😋. These articles are posted outside Dev.to, hence the moniker - "alien" 👽
I hope you guys find them rewarding!

1. Image compression in React.Js

When developing a web platform with an end-user in view, image upload feature and controlling the size of images being uploaded is extremely important. Flooding the database with unnecessarily high-resolution images is never a good practice. That's where Author John Au-Yeung comes in with react-image-file-resizer.

2. Build a Discord bot with Node.Js

Being a video game enthusiast, I have spent countless hours at discord voice and text channels playing, trolling, and generally messing around. And let me tell you, discord bots (the good ones) are a hell-lot of fun. So when I came across this article by Tanmayee Choudhury, I just had to share it.

3. Stripe.Js + React.Js

A goods/service-providing web solution always requires some sort of payment gateway. While you could take the easy way out and just use an outside platform like GumRoad, setting up a personal stripe account and integrating stripe gateway into your application can be extremely rewarding. Author Yusuff Faruq describes the coding side of stripe in his article below. A must-read.

4. Error handling in JSX

while try-catch works great in the backend, it seems to do nothing when incorporated in the frontend section of a react App. Author Adebiyi Adedotun is here to introduce us to the concept of error-boundaries that can prevent a webpage from collapsing into itself in case of a fetch failure.

5. From Javascript to Java

This article by John Selawsky compares Javascript and Java to give us a clear picture of what it takes to make the jump from one to another.

Let me know what you think!

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