Understanding the essential JavaScript Concepts of truthy and falsy values When we hear the “truthy” and “falsy”, we automatically associate these terms to the boolean context. So what makes them different from the boolean, “true” and “false”? …

Understanding the difference between let, const & var As a developer, we have are go to variable that we use but really understanding the differences is essential to writing better code. Variables allow us to declare and assign values. Each variable varies in their usage but they all share the…

In an earlier blog post, I covered my learning of the React useState hooks and the convenience of being able to access state in a functional component. …

Have you ever needed to utilize an endpoint with objects that did not contain unique ids? The ‘rest-client’ is a great gem to utilize to parse these objects to seed into your seed file so you can assign an id and save in your database. This gem is a simple…

Hooks that allow usage of state without class Hooks give us the ability to use state in “stateless components”, also known as function components. You cannot use hooks in classes. Hook is a special function that allows us to “hook into” React features. import React, { useState } from 'react' …

We have transformed into the cloud dependent society. If you take a second to reflect on the number of applications that rely on the cloud technologies, it is insurmountable. The iCloud saves and updates data from apple devices. Spotify saves created playlists and allows offline downloads. Office365 and Slack allows…

HackerRank Challenge Day 1 I just completed my first HackerRank challenge. I figured that the first day would not be too challenging with the level marked easy but boy, was I wrong. Thank goodness for Readline module. Complete the code in the editor below. The variables i, d, and s…

Setting up and authenticating your personal and work accounts I just completed my first week on the internship post bootcamp. It was a great week and I learned so much but also went through some growing pains, managing and linking my personal and work GitHub account through VS Code. Create…

Exploring best practices of the runtime complexities in objects vs arrays The Big-O notation is an important tool for software engineers, evaluating the runtime of a function based on the time and space complexities. …