Imagine you’d never heard of ES6 or any JS framework like React or Angular (and maybe, if you’re like me a couple of weeks ago, you don’t even have to imagine. That’s fine!). How would you organize your JavaScript code? If you’re not building super complex applications, you might just save your JS code in… Continue reading Understanding imports and exports in JavaScript
Why I decided to teach myself web development
In the past three years, I found myself searching for something in relation to my work that was hard to grasp in the beginning, but became pretty clear in the spring of 2019: I wanted to be able to build whatever I wanted (especially after finding that a non-technical, female, solo founder had around 0%… Continue reading Why I decided to teach myself web development
Weekly progress, eleventh week of 2021
Another week where I did not make any progress since work was super busy, but I published one blogpost about the resources I like /recommend for learning frontend development.
My favorite resources for learning frontend development
When you’re teaching yourself how to code, the amount of resources you can find online is just overwhelming. I found that it’s a journey (and, quite often, an obstacle) in itself to pick the right resources and not get sidetracked into watching yet another Youtube tutorial. Moreover, just because your material says “for beginners” doesn’t… Continue reading My favorite resources for learning frontend development
Weekly progress, tenth week of 2021
I started to code a new portfolio project continued my Frontend Masters CSS course, I am now at 5% completion of the learning path
Weekly progress, ninth week of 2021
started preparation of my JS meetup – decided on a date, contacted the social media team at WomenWhoCode for preparations attended the WWC weekly meetup on Tuesday continued to work on my password reset component for WWC. I think the code is working as intended, but the styling is still off, so I have to… Continue reading Weekly progress, ninth week of 2021
Weekly progress, eighth week of 2021
went through the first 10% of my React course on Frontend Masters on Monday published my blogpost on modules/exports on Tuesday had a meeting with WWC team on Thursday to go over code and clarify some questions then pushed my updated code to the branch of the WWC repo set a date to begin my… Continue reading Weekly progress, eighth week of 2021
My weekly progress, seventh week of 2021
finished React tutorial to work with the Breaking Bad API started researching and writing a blogpost about named and default exports continued working on my login flow project in React and documented my work in a blogpost (still not finished) attended the WWC weekly meetup continued to work on my password reset component for the… Continue reading My weekly progress, seventh week of 2021
My weekly progress, sixth week of 2021
attended WomenWhoCode meetup on Tuesday despite being sick the entire week finished React tutorial for building a task tracker app started building a login flow in React that I had previously built with Vanilla JS. I want to document the process in a blogpost and it takes me much longer than anticipated
Basic array destructuring in ES6
When I wrote this blogpost about object destructuring in ES6, I decided that it would be easier to split up the main subject of destructuring between how to destructure objects in ES6 and how to destructure arrays. This post is part 2 and aims at giving an intro to array destructuring. The difference between arrays… Continue reading Basic array destructuring in ES6
My weekly progress, fifth week of 2021
Researched and published a blogpost about array destructuring Continued to learn React and started building a simple task tracker app following this tutorial