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In this episode of Running in Production, Kristian Dupont goes over building aSAAS app to manage access control to your existing SAAS subscriptions. It’sbuilt with Koa, Node and React and is hosted on Heroku. It’s been running inproduction since 2018.Kristian talks about validating his idea before coding it, really leveragingcode linting tools, the challenges of adding a bunch of different SAAS appintegrations, using ElephantSQL to host his PostgreSQL database and more.Topics Include 9:19 – Reasons for choosing Koa and Knex with a custom library Kristian wrote 1:15:24 – You can find Kristian on Twitter and his personal site lists all of his socialsLinks📄 References https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/ https://www.milesconsultinggroup.com/blog/2021/06/01/what-to-know-about-the-taxability-of-saas-in-18-key-states/ https://blog.serverfault.com/post/stack-exchanges-architecture-in-bullet-points/ https://kristiandupont.medium.com/and-naming-things-tailwind-css-typescript-and-mammals-9eab459633d2⚙️ Tech Stack koa → node → react → cloudflare → datadog → docker → elephantsql → freshping → gitlab-ci → heroku → mailchimp → parcel → postgres → sendgrid → sentry → slack → tailwindcss → xeno → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/venables/koa-helmet https://github.com/knex/knex https://github.com/kristiandupont/kanel https://github.com/eslint/eslint https://github.com/facebook/jest https://github.com/kristiandupont/mdconf-loaderSupport the ShowThis episode does not have a sponsor and this podcast is a labor of love. If you want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my courses or suggest one to a friend. Dive into Docker is a video course that takes you from not knowing what Docker isto being able to confidently use Docker and Docker Compose for your own apps.Long gone are the days of "but it works on my machine!". A bunch of followalong labs are included. Build a SAAS App with Flask is a video course where we build a realworld SAAS app that accepts payments, has a custom admin, includes high testcoverage and goes over how to implement and apply 50+ common web app features.There's over 20+ hours of video.