Vasu K

Hola! I'm a Fullstack developer and a strong advocate of Mobile first design. I'm running a digital children's startup for kids and I lead the engineering efforts there. In my free time I ramble about technology, and consult startups.

Vasu's articles

To Redux or Not: the Art of Structuring State in React Apps

JavaScript

By Vasu K, September 22, 2017

Vasu walks through various strategies for modeling state, explaining when each of them can be used.

Effectively Handle iOS Payments in Rails

Ruby

By Vasu K, October 08, 2015

Vasu K walks you, the Rails developer, through accepting iOS payments within your Rails application. Offer in-app purchases easily with this tutorial.

What’s New in Rails 5

Ruby

By Vasu K, June 11, 2015

Vasu K takes you through the changes and improvements coming in Rails 5. Changes to API work, turbolinks, and testing are all included.

Build Custom User Analytics with Parse

Ruby

By Vasu K, May 28, 2015

If you need to track custom analytics, Parse is a perfect option. Vasu K shows you how to use Parse to track user analytics from Rails and javascript.

Stripe Subscriptions in Rails

Ruby

By Vasu K, April 30, 2015

Vasu K walks through how to setup a subscription-based service using Stripe in Rails. Subscription plans are notoriously hard to setup, but this is easy.

Image Processing with Rails

Ruby

By Vasu K, February 12, 2015

Vasu K dives into using Rails to create and manipulate images. Learn how to upload images, create multiple versions, and optimize the images for the web.

Rails Model Caching with Redis

Ruby

By Vasu K, January 15, 2015

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