Explore plugins for note-taking, writing, diagramming, and presentation. — Vim/Neovim is a great tool for note-taking and writing. In this article, we will recap the relevant plugins mentioned in the previous articles, and go through new plugins, tools, and tricks for note-taking, writing, diagramming, and presentation. This article is part of the Neovim for Beginners series. The Neovim configuration…

Refactor our application to use Serverless Stack Web for authentication. — In the previous article, we used AWS Amplify for authentication. With the new release of Serverless Stack (SST), now we can use the provided web package to authenticate with AWS Cognito. We will refactor our frontend code to use SST for authentication instead of using AWS Amplify. This article is…

Generate code documentation, annotation, and comment. — From the previous articles, we have configured the snippet plugin and also learned how to write custom snippets using the Lua language. Another important aspect of better coding is code documentation, annotation, and comment. In this article, we are going to configure plugins to help us document our code, and…

Develop the user sign-up and sign-in components. — For our AppSync GraphQL service, we used Serverless Stack (SST) to provision an AWS Cognito user pool and secure the endpoint. Instead of using an API key, now a user must be registered and authenticated before using the services. In this article, we are going to develop the user sign-up…

Manage multiple projects using Neovim. — Managing multiple projects is always challenging. In this article, we will see how Neovim can help us. We are going to Configure the buffer line to make it easy to use tabs for multiple projects. Configure plugins to search for projects in the file system. Configure plugins to switch among…

Use the open-source financial terminal to study a stock. — We learned the basics of the OpenBB Terminal which is an open-source investment research platform. In this article, let’s apply the knowledge to study a stock. The content of this article is not investment advice. Investment involves risk. Always use your judgment for any investment decision. Choose a Stock To make it interesting…

Code refactoring using Neovim. — Code refactoring is one key feature of using an IDE. Natively Vim as a text editor does not have any built-in support for code refactoring. With Neovim we start to have the built-in LSP support that gives us basic code refactoring features like find-references, rename, code actions, etc., using semantic…

Backend service authentication using OpenID Connect. — We developed REST, GraphQL, and AppSync APIs for our serverless application. The AppSync APIs are protected using an API key. AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) controls the access to computer resources, enforces policies, and audits usage. For modern applications, we have protocols like OAuth2 and OpenID Connect that we can…