Let’s make fetch happen. Why do we need it? What can we do with it? How is it related to controller actions?
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- Introduction
- Refresher on Fetch Requests
- Structuring the Request with Fetch
3a. Bonus! Getting the user’s input from a form - Handling the Request & Structuring the Response with Controller Action
- Handling the Response with .then
- Conclusion & Summary
- Want more? Other resources to check out!
Introduction 💻
Graduating from bootcamp isn’t the end, it’s only the beginning.
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Dedicated to anyone who struggles with or needs a refresher on asynchronous JavaScript, Promises, and the different ways to consume them with Promise chaining vs. async/await and try/catch (…🙋)
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Introduction 🚗
When I was first introduced to JavaScript promises, the concept confused me…
Interested in testing but don’t know where to start? Let’s start by understanding tests and then take a closer look at unit testing with Jest.
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Introduction 🥼
Once you have some practice and a basic understanding of a programming language and/or framework…
Did you know that there are methods you can use on both JavaScript strings and arrays? Let’s take a look at these methods and see the similarities and differences between them!
Introduction
While it’s impossible to know every single method in JavaScript, it’s also nice to know that there are some methods that can be used on more than one data type.
Specifically for strings and arrays, these methods are concat, indexOf, and slice. In this article, we will understand what each…
Need a refresher on JavaScript’s arrays and methods? This is a one-stop-shop that breaks down arrays and the numerous methods we can use.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What are arrays?
- How do we create arrays?
3a. Bonus! Spread Operator - Methods
4a. Basic Methods: pop, push, shift, unshift, splice, slice
Bonus! Length property
4b. Advanced Methods: reduce, sort, concat, flat, filter, join, map, find, forEach
4c. Fun Methods: toString, includes, fill, indexOf, findIndex - Conclusion
- Want more? Other…
Want to learn a new backend but not sure where to start? Follow along to set up a basic Node.js/Express API (including routes and dealing with request/response)!
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Early Steps
- Basic Setup
- Adding in Routes
Bonus! External Fetching - Conclusion
- Want more? Other resources to check out!
Introduction 💪
Recently I have focused on reviewing fundamentals and deepening my knowledge of topics I learned during my bootcamp in order to learn something new. However, this time I decided to take…
When choosing what you want to use as your database, a strong contender is often PostgreSQL. Read on to learn more about PostgreSQL and how to install it with Postgres app!
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What is PostgreSQL?
2a. History of PostgreSQL
2b. Definition of PostgreSQL
2c. How PostgreSQL is different from SQL - Postgres.app
3a. Installing Postgres.app
3b. Troubleshooting - Conclusion & Takeaways
- Want more? Other resources to check out!
Introduction 💭
During my time at Flatiron School, when it came to starting our projects in Mod…
So you’re learning React and come across components. Class components, functional components, and wait, hooks? Read on to understand the difference between them (🤫 the secret is state)
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- Introduction
- Background Info
2a. So… What are Components?
2b. Bonus! Arguments vs Parameters
2c. So… What is State? - Class Components vs Functional Components
3a. Bonus! constructor() - Hooks
4a. Bonus! useState() - Conclusion & Takeaways
- Want more? Other resources to check out!
Introduction 🐣
We all start from somewhere, and one of the things…
I bet you’ve heard of callback functions if you’re familiar with JavaScript. But do you really know what they are, why we use them, or how to use them?
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- Introduction
- Quick Review
- Defining the Textbook Definition
- Why do we need callbacks?
- But what does this really mean?
- Creating Callback Function
6a. Bonus! Callback Hell - Conclusions & Takeaways
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Introduction 🤿
Something you’re bound to come across in JavaScript are callback functions. While I know what…
