Nick Parsons

Nick Parsons @nickparsons

About: Software Eng ➡️ Marketer

Location:
Boulder, CO
Joined:
Jun 29, 2017

Nick Parsons
articles - 55 total

Clerk Update — July 2024

The Clerk team has been hard at work shipping new features to help you build secure applications faster. Here’s a rundown of the highlights:

Learn More 13 1Jul 12 '24

Ultimate Guide to Magic Link Authentication

In this post, we discuss the benefits of email magic links, show examples of how they work, and explain why they meet the requirements for secure, passwordless authentication.

Learn More 6 0Feb 24 '24

Exploring the Intricacies of OTP Authentication in Next.js

Learn how one-time passwords work, best practices for using OTPs in authentication, and how to implement OTPs in Next.js.

Learn More 2 0Jul 24 '23

Secure Authentication in Next.js with Email Magic Links

In this guide, you will learn how to implement email magic links in Next.js.

Learn More 5 0Jun 6 '23

Social SSO in Next.js

In this article, we explore how to incorporate OAuth SSO into a Next.js project with JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and the new app router from Next.js.

Learn More 0 0Jun 6 '23

Feature Engineering for Fraud Detection

Feature engineering is a complex artform, and the precision and thoughtfulness that needs to go into it when working with sensitive data and high stakes, like in the case of fraud detection, further complicates its planning and implementation. While there are a good number of things to account for when performing feature engineering for fraud detection, this article helps to highlight many of the challenges, technologies, and strategies that can be employed throughout this process to give you a leg up when going through the process.

Learn More 3 0Dec 7 '22

Build an iOS 1-on-1 Video Chat App with SwiftUI and Dolby.io

Integrate 1-on-1 video chat with Dolby.io on iOS (SwiftUI)

Learn More 16 0May 27 '20

Encrypted Chat on iOS (Swift)

Tutorial on how to build an encrypted chat app for iOS (Swift) using Stream and Virgil Security

Learn More 29 0May 8 '20

Learn How Dubsmash Powers Millions of Users with Stream

Our team had a chance to sit down with Tim Specht, Co-Founder and CTO at Dubsmash. If you’re not fami...

Learn More 68 1Apr 16 '20

Migrate from Pusher Chatkit to Stream Chat

As previously mentioned in a blog post by Stream, Pusher recently announced its intention to shut dow...

Learn More 8 0Apr 2 '20

How to Make an Encrypted Messaging App

Hey Android Devs! Looking to implement encrypted chat/messaging into your Android app? There is a g...

Learn More 11 0Mar 26 '20

Android Chat Bubbles: Building iOS Style Chat in Android

In this post, we'll explore how to do two things: 1) create live chat message bubbles in Android that...

Learn More 11 0Mar 10 '20

The Stream CLI By Example

The Stream CLI is a powerful tool for communicating and debugging your Stream Chat setup with the Str...

Learn More 7 0Mar 10 '20

Stream Flutter: Building a Social Network with Flutter — Group Channels

In the third part of our series, we're building group chat into our social application. This allows u...

Learn More 14 1Mar 3 '20

Stream Flutter: Building a Social Network with Flutter — Direct Messaging

In the second part of our series, we'll implement direct messaging between users by integrating Strea...

Learn More 15 0Mar 3 '20

Stream Flutter: Building a Social Network with Flutter – Activity Feeds

In this post, we'll be creating a simple social network, called Stream Flutter, that allows a user to...

Learn More 14 0Mar 3 '20

Stream Flutter: Building a Social Network with Flutter (Series)

In this post, we'll be creating a simple social network, called Stream Flutter, that allows a user to...

Learn More 12 0Feb 28 '20

Build a Fully Functional Messaging Platform in 30 Minutes

Learn how to build a fully functional messaging platform using Stream's Messaging API in under 30 min...

Learn More 100 2Feb 4 '20

Styled Components vs. CSS Stylesheets

Over the last few years, CSS-in-JS solutions have become prevalent across the front-end landscape wit...

Learn More 242 19Jan 20 '20

Stream Is Deprecating Virtual Go – It’s Time to Move to Go Modules

TL;DR Stream released vg almost three years ago, and since its inception, Go has improved...

Learn More 45 1Jan 16 '20

A Guide to White-Label Chat

If you’re looking for a white-label chat solution, this is this post for you! In this blog post, we w...

Learn More 79 2Jan 14 '20

Integrating the Web Notifications API With Stream Chat

Many applications today inform users about important messages related to their application by sending...

Learn More 13 0Jan 13 '20

Rolling a Custom Docs CMS with Slate and Django REST Framework

The Rundown In 2019 we realized we had a big problem here at Stream. Our documentation for...

Learn More 75 1Jan 11 '20

Interview & Predictions for Cloud in 2020

2019 has been a year of tremendous growth for both Stream and Ionic. My name is Nick Parsons, and I’m...

Learn More 78 1Jan 10 '20

Stream in 2020

2019 has been an exciting year for Stream. The team doubled, our customers doubled, and we launched o...

Learn More 4 0Jan 9 '20

Open Source REST API for Chat with Express, MongoDB, and Heroku

Overview Here at Stream, we’re known for our Feeds as a Service as well as our Chat as a S...

Learn More 13 0Jan 9 '20

Implementing React Hooks with Stream Chat

React hooks, released in February 2019, have huge benefits when implemented in your application. Whet...

Learn More 48 0Jan 9 '20

A Guide to Developer Marketing in 2020

Initial Thoughts Stream provides Feeds, which allow developers to build event-driven appli...

Learn More 141 8Dec 18 '19

Stream Flutter: Building a Social Network with Stream Activity Feeds and Flutter

In this post, we'll be creating a simple social network, called Stream Flutter, that allows a user to...

Learn More 52 0Dec 11 '19

Announcing Serify: A Lightweight SMS Validation Library for Twilio Verify

Serify is a wrapper around the Twilio Verify REST API. This lightweight and straightforward wrapper a...

Learn More 8 0Dec 10 '19