Building Telegram Mini Apps with React

Telegram has introduced Mini Apps integration, allowing web developers to build various applications within the Telegram ecosystem, facilitating seamless transitions between chatting, shopping, gaming, and booking services. This eliminates the need for separate app downloads and lengthy approval processes on platforms like Google Play and Apple Store. Widely adopted in the Web3 space, these Mini Apps are instrumental for crypto startups to deploy MVPs and engage users. The tutorial guides developers through creating a full-stack ecommerce application using React and Node.js, with features like user authentication, product and order management, and payment handling via Stripe. It covers setting up a Postgres database, creating RESTful APIs with Express.js, and deploying the application using platforms like Netlify and Render. Finally, it details configuring a Telegram bot to launch the ecommerce app as a Mini App, demonstrating the potential of using familiar web technologies to build sophisticated applications within a super-app ecosystem.