Using React Components: Class vs. Functional

Working with Github can seem like a bit of a mystifying experience for those that have just begun using it. Pull, push, merge, clone, sync, publish. It seems like a barrage when all you want to do is update a project from VS code. In this post I would like…

The endeavor of this week has been to update the back end of my DreamBean application (adding a User resource, implementing table associations, password encryption, and other validations), I am enjoying revisiting the realm of Rails and the powerful capabilities of ActiveRecord macros. As I was creating for a relationship…

Working on updating my final Flatiron project this week ( generating a new resource on the backend with corresponding action’s on the front), has led me to appreciate the sleekness of Rails’ design and how much it facilitates productivity, particularly in regards to the MVC architecture and the separation of…

This had been a serious journey. I have completely invested myself for almost a year with the intention of graduating Flatiron School. From Ruby, to Sinatra, to Rails, to JavaScript, and finally to React and Redux. …

The final project. This project (which employed React & Redux on the frontend & Rails on the backend) was as much about learning a new way to think, regarding the structure and flow of the project, as much as it was learning to code in a new syntax. As silly…

Rails/JavaScript Project Phase 4 Blog Post The most difficult aspect of this project( aside from grasping the Document Object Model conceptually), was the application of Fetch requests and understanding the nature of asynchronous operations. The functional code in itself had enough parallels with procedural Ruby( methods, booleans/conditionals, enumeration etc.) …

RAILS PROJECT BLOG Where to start? When I began this project I believed that building with Rails would simply be a higher powered version of Sinatra, but it is was much more nuanced than that . At risk of sounding dull, on thing that put me under comparatively greater duress than the previous…

For my Module 2 project I designed a CRUD MVC app using Sinatra. My app was designed to allow users to write any article of their choosing, and to contribute it to the main page for all other users to view. In comparison to Module 1 CLI, I found this…