Here is a list I put together of great resources to become more knowledgable in JavaScript and front end development. — Assuming you already have some basic understanding of the fundamentals and workings of JavaScript, these books and tutorials can help you to take your skills to the next level — and they’re all free! JavaScript Stack From Scratch Hosted on GitHub, JS Stack From Scratch is a tutorial that goes…

As a project naturally develops over time to become more robust with a database that grows in parallel to increasing complexity, there are measures that can be made to ensure that the user experience is the best it can be. — Styling It is not recommended to use in-line styling in a React app because it will add a lot of repeated code to your program. Not to mention, when making any kind of change it will be easier to make a mistake by not applying the update to all of…

Today, I deployed my first application with Heroku. Read on to see how I did it and why you might want to try it out for yourself. — I recently finished working on the first version of my portfolio website. Yay me! It is strictly a front end website that I built with React’s create-react-app and using other libraries like emailjs and react-scroll to add some useful functionality. emailjs allowed me to enable emails to be sent directly…

I don’t know about you, but I need to get better at algorithms. — Let me tell you a story… This past Friday, I completed a HireVue interview along with CodeVue coding challenges that was sent to me after I applied to JPMorgan Chase & Co’s Software Engineering Program. …

When writing in JavaScript, it’s important to understand the differences between =, ==, and ===. It will cause bugs and errors in the codebase when used incorrectly. — Assignment Operator = I decided to add the assignment operator to this post because I had made the mistake many times early on of mixing this up with the comparison operators which caused me quite a bit of trouble while testing. So here is a quick explanation of how it…

What is the DOM? The DOM stands for Document Object Model. It is an object-oriented representation of objects and nodes that make up the content for the documents that are seen by its users on the web. The documents themselves are in HTML and XML format and each web page…

This is more of a reminder to myself that hard work will pay off in the end — no matter how long you wait. I’ve been on the job hunt for about 4 months now. I graduated from Flatiron School’s Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp during the beginning stages of…

Recently, I was interviewed by a wonderful company and I wanted to write about my experience with an algorithm that I was tested on. The task that I was given was to write a method or function using my choice of JavaScript or Ruby that will take in a single…

Components are what make up the structure of React applications. The larger and more complex an application is, the more components you will have. A component can be classified as either a class or functional component that comprises of a mix of JavaScript and JSX elements that can accept inputs…