I’ve noticed that some companies ask frontend developers to serve as the de facto design leads, working extensively with HTML, CSS and different design frameworks to conceive and execute interfaces of their own design. …

So what’s exactly is a reducer? A reducer is a pure function in Redux that accepts an action and the application’s previous state and returns the new state. The action specifies what occurred, and the reducer’s role is to return the updated state as a result of that action. Pure…

As a developer new to React, I was thrown into a Redux project in which I had no idea how to navigate. I searched for all sorts of tutorials to help me better understand the concept, but things just didn’t click. What is state? Since Redux is what’s known as a state management…

It’s obvious by this point that I’m obsessed with art. As I delve deeper into the New York City world — both as a passion and source of supplementary income — my interest finds its way into my coding projects. This time around I decided to play around with the…

While React is extremely intuitive and user-friendly for fledgling developers learning the ropes, it has limitations when it comes to project size and server-side development. It may have a steeper learning curve than React but is an an ideal framework when you want ready-to-use solutions, cleaner code development and higher…

I’ve noticed that some companies ask frontend developers to serve as the de facto design leads, working extensively with HTML, CSS and different design frameworks to conceive and execute interfaces of their own design. Different emphases are placed on the Frontend Developer, depending on the company’s needs. …

Drawing on experimental composer John Cage’s use of chance as an artistic tool, I decided to build a card random generator using a JS/HTML/CSS frontend to access data from a public API and manipulate the DOM. My idea: As a musician — or creative of any sort — it can…

Grinding to become a career front end developer — or any sort of programmer for that matter — can be a wholly overwhelming experience. Given the bevy of suggested languages, frameworks, and tools to tackle, information overload is inevitable. While always well-intentioned, all the advice can be damaging at times…

Throughout my job search, I’ve made a habit of identifying and improving upon my weaknesses through each step of the process. Initially, it was my coding ability itself— after bumbling through technical challenges, I hunkered down and completed exercise after exercise to hone my skills. Eventually I started passing the…