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I'm going to be honest upfront, Challenge 4 of our coding challenge feels, well, less than challenge 3. I thoroughly enjoyed the 3rd challenge, so this was a little bit of a letdown. We went from making a search tool against Star Wars movie scripts to a URL shortener. Right? Not as much fun, but... Continue Reading →
I'm impatient I've done this too many times: // api call to get the contact Luke Skywalker // process a little data return ( <Card> <Card.Title>{person.name}</Card.Title> </Card> ) just to get a lovely Can't read property 'name' of undefined error. Yuck. I fire up the dev console... Network tab, is the API returning data? ✅.... Continue Reading →
I'm pretty excited about challenge 3 of our coding challenge. It let me geek out in two ways: Star Wars! We are creating a basic search tool to search the movie scripts. #ThisIsTheWayI've been on a project for the last few years creating an intelligent enterprise search tool for a client. Much of what I... Continue Reading →
Here we go with challenge 2 of our little coding challenge! What's with the tomato? Well, this challenge was to make a pomodoro timer, check this out: Our second challenge gets more tangy! We'll be building a Pomodoro timer. To provide some background, the Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in... Continue Reading →
Ha, that's all I got. As I mentioned earlier, I'm going through a fun little coding challenge with my team at Slalom. Our first challenge is to create a calculator. Since I'm learning Spring Boot and specifically creating REST APIs, I get to create this calculator as an API... But first, the requirements, here's what... Continue Reading →
I enjoyed the Advent of Code this past December, a lot, especially since I was doing it with some of my teammates. There were some great lessons learned, and who doesn't love to learn? We were discussing the benefits of a coding challenge like this and decided to think up our own! Our coding challenge... Continue Reading →
This is nothing new, but something I only recently started doing. Ya know those console.logs you're using in your JavaScript code? Did you know you can style them in the dev toolbar? YA! In both your browser console and nodejs! Styling the browser console It's really that simple! Throw a %c in your console.log message,... Continue Reading →
In a previous post I shared an approach to enhance reducer actions in your React Context. I've worked through this a few times and found one thing this approach doesn't have that something like Redux does: the logger. Well, there's a separate library for logging called redux-logger. This nifty little piece of middleware writes out... Continue Reading →
There's a new CSS property available that I'm pretty excited about. Traditionally, if you wanted to size an image to be widescreen, you'd have to do some math on your own. Then making it responsive gets tricky as well. Widescreen is 16:9, so if it's 1200px wide, how tall should it be? On mobile, when... Continue Reading →
State management in ReactJS is uber important, and there is a plethora of content in the wild about how best to do this: from libraries like Redux to using useState in a component. React also has this neat little useReducer hook for using a reducer in your component. This follows the typical reducer pattern of... Continue Reading →
