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
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Understanding imports and exports in JavaScript
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
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
My weekly progress, fourth week of 2021
Met my WomenWhoCode team to plan how we split up the issues we’ve been assigned and then to work on our issues collectively Attended the WomenWhoCode meetup on Tuesdays Made progress learning React Pushed a new component to our team’s branch (even though I still need to overwork the code, but the basic functionality is… Continue reading My weekly progress, fourth week of 2021
My weekly progress, third week of 2021
Is it a good idea to publish a progress post when there’s no progress to write about? This week was extremely busy with work-related stuff, unfortunately. I did practice some vanilla JS earlier in the week: I practiced how to check multiple checkboxes while pressing the shift key and repeated array methods like .filter(), .map(),… Continue reading My weekly progress, third week of 2021
My weekly progress, second week of 2021
Published a blogpost about destructuring Published a blogpost about constructor functions Participated in my first CodeNewbie twitter chat and made some new connections Attended my weekly WWC meetup on Tuesday Started to use Anki cards daily, something I wanted to make a habit for a long time. I’m currently working through my ES6 and JavaScript… Continue reading My weekly progress, second week of 2021
Intro to JavaScript constructor functions
Constructor functions in JavaScript help us create new objects with similar properties and behaviors (methods), without the need to set them up one by one. This makes life much easier and less repetitive, especially when we need to work with lots of data that is stored in objects. The basics When using a constructor function… Continue reading Intro to JavaScript constructor functions