I was recommended this book during a conversation with a more senior engineer I had recently, and decided A) to give it a read, and B) to write short summations of each chapter as I go through it, as well as a longer, more in-depth one once I finish it. I’ve said it before, by …
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Welcome back for part 3 of this build along! This is going to be a shorter post that’s a quick detour from what I was planning to write about. Over the weekend our team had a call, and one of our teachers from the bootcamp who was present recommended that I change the class components …
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Welcome back to part 2 of this build along! I’m literally starting this one right after finishing the last one, so I’m not going to waste any time on a long, winding introduction. We’re gonna style this app a bit to make it less ugly, adding functionality for login and logout actions, and connect Redux …
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Time for another build-along! This time I’m building a mobile app with React Native using the Expo framework, Google Firebase/Cloud Firestore for the backend, and Redux for local state management. I’m particularly excited about this one, as it’s an application that’s actually going to see some real world use! It was the final project my …
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In part one and part two of this series we explored the basic building blocks of creating a Node/Express server, and added some basic functionality for password encryption, user authentication, etc. Now that those pieces are in place we can work on extending the functionality of our application by adding in the five other user …
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In part one of this series we implemented all the basic building blocks of a node/express server, along with a MongoDB database. In part two we’re going to continue building out the different user controller functions and routes, add in some authentication and validation for added security, and a few other odds and ends that’ll …
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For the next piece in my coding tutorial series, I’m going to build a backend server for a simple blogging tool using node.js, express.js, and MongoDB. This might seem a bit odd coming on the heels of my deep dive on Redux, but I’ve been heavily focusing on React and other frontend tools lately while …
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Welcome to part 3 in my beginner’s guide to Redux! In part one we covered the basics of implementing Redux in a React application, and in part two we added some more advanced features. The last thing I do want to touch on is the second argument we can pass into the connect function, mapDispatchToProps. …
Welcome to part two of my beginner’s guide to Redux! To be honest, I’m primarily writing this to clarify my own understanding of Redux and make sure I really get it before adding other stacks on top of my knowledge. So if anyone else is actually even reading this…hope it helps! In part one we …
Time for another piece on coding, this one on Redux. According to their website, Redux is: A Predictable State Container for JS Apps Essentially it’s a tool that allows us to create a global state for JavaScript apps, being able to access data from said state in any component without needing to pass it up …