Learning vim has a steep learning curve. Try replacing your regular IDE with vim or work with it side by side. Slowly you can figure out how to do basic actions you do in IDE with vim such as copy, paste, select, tab, split and more. 

 & that would be the go-to place to reference it later.

Vim is a very powerful text editor and can be configured to use as IDE...  

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What is agile? Is agile the same as scrum?

Agile is an iterative process to deliver software in incremental value(Continuous delivery) rather than delivering it all at once. Continuous delivery helps the team to respond to changes and feedback from the client/stakeholders.

Agile is methodology or mindset and scrum is a framework to implement that.

Are you practicing scrum without you knowing it?

I was practicing scrum, at least partially, before I know what scrum was. Most of us do.

When I work on my side project, I break the project down to achievable functionalities for that particular week in a notepad. once I achieve it, I would clear those tasks and write new functionalities to work for the next weekend. Sounds familiar? It's called sprint in the scrum.

Once I start learning scrum, getting familiar with it is easy for me. because I was doing the same thing with a notepad. but when working with a team, you need more than a notepad. That's where tools like Jira would help with the real collaboration. 

MVP is the concept of agile. MVP means building enough features so that customers can use the product and give feedback rather than assuming what the customer wants and building everything at once.

Failing fast is the way of measuring product success via quick iterations and incremental development, and helps the team to pivot to a different direction at the initial stage of the product lifecycle.

1 - Github integration workflow with Jira issues

There are several branching techniques when comes to using version control systems. Jira encourages to use of Task branching(branch-per-task workflow). 

Task branch technique would connect each issue with the source code when the issue number is mentioned in branch or commit messages.

 app extension that integrates your git inside the Jira dashboard and all the commits, pull requests & merges would appear inside the dashboard. It encourages the developer to take responsibility from start to finish, improves transparency, and tracks the progress of the issue.

Jira automation helps with the repetition of work and allows the team to automate the workflow. For example, the Jira automation rule can be set to change the issue status from "To do" to "In Progress" when the branch is created with the Jira issue number. 

Agile is an iterative process to deliver software in incremental value(Continuous delivery) rather than delivering it all at once. Continuous delivery helps the team to respond to changes and feedback from the client/stakeholders...

Agile? Scrum? How does it help teams to deliver Software products?

 allows you to expose your localhost via a secure tunnel to the internet. One of the features of Ngrok is testing the webhook payload in your local environment.

Webhook is sending real-time information(as JSON or XML) to a specified URL(External system) whenever some event happens. It's more prevalent these days with the latest platforms such as Shopify, Sanity.io & Mailchimp.

For security reasons, Webhook payloads are only exposed to SSL-certified URLs. This is where Ngrok comes into help.

1 - Install Ngrok in your local machine. For Mac run the below command in your terminal:

2 - I suggest signing up for Ngrok so that account-only features can be used. 

4 - Copy the secure URL from the terminal and paste it into the webhook URL field from which the payload comes. In my case, I'm testing it with Shopify.

5 - Once the product from Shopify gets updated, it sends the payload to your specified Ngrok URL which tunnels the payload into your local environment.

6 - To inspect your payload, go to "http://127.0.0.1:4040/inspect/http" from your browser.

 JSON payload can be mapped to your local database.

Ngrok allows you to expose your localhost via a secure tunnel to the internet. One of the features of Ngrok is testing the webhook payload in your local environment...

How to use ngrok - webhook integration

If you're thinking of adding e-commerce to your existing application, turn to Shopify as it's offering great developer-friendly features such as Storefront API & Admin API with GraphQL endpoint, Webhooks, and Shopify payment(available for limited countries). 

When working with Shopify Headless, you're merely displaying the products on the existing website, and Shopify does all the heavy lifting(Payment, Shipping, Discount, and so on).

Integrating with other external systems such as ERP, CRM or CMS is easy with Shopify.

 for various languages and frameworks to kick-start with.

Storefront API offers GraphQL endpoint which enables developers to build headless e-commerce sites, mobile apps & even sell products via video games(

Storefront API is a public-facing API, as opposed to Admin API, which means requests to the Storefront API can be made from the client side.

Request to the Admin API can be sent only via the back end of the app. Using Admin API, developers can read and write to products, inventory, orders, shipping & more.

"Buy SDK" is a wrapper around functionalities like fetching products, collections, line items, discounts, and so on. It basically initializes the GraphQL client with the query to make a request to Shopify with the credentials supplied.

The checkout process starts with creating a Shopify cart session from your website which then creates Shopify checkout URL. Products can be added to the cart session.

Checkout URL takes the customers to the Shopify checkout page with the products added from your website. 

As I mentioned above that integrating with the business system is a breeze with Shopify. In my organization, we use NetSuite ERS. So all the orders created in Shopify need to be pushed into NetSuite for the accounts team to handle. NetSuite sends an automatic invoice to the customer If they chose to pay their order manually and then sync the order status back to Shopify via GraphQL mutation.

If you're thinking of adding e-commerce to your existing application, turn to Shopify as it's offering great developer-friendly features such as Storefront API & Admin API with GraphQL endpoint, Webhooks, and Shopify payment(available for limited countries)...

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