Erik Luebbers – Medium

May 2

Setting User status to a state variable

Setting user status to a state variable is a crucial way to ensure that conditional and declarative rendering works for authenticated… — Setting user status to a state variable is a crucial way to ensure that conditional and declarative rendering works for authenticated users. Making the ability to view components dependent on being logged in is necessary for security and data management. In this app, users are logging in to a site…

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Apr 6

Updating State with POST/PATCH Requests

It is crucial, when developing an application, to avoid unnecessary fetch requests in order to avoid expending computing power and time… — It is crucial, when developing an application, to avoid unnecessary fetch requests in order to avoid expending computing power and time resources while also ensuring that our frontend stays updated based on user interactions. In this app, the initial data fetch happens using a useEffect hook that grabs all of…

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Mar 29

Creating the Now Showing App

Creating the Now Showing App meant as a full-stack development project helped to crystalize some critical understandings about connecting… — Creating the Now Showing App meant as a full-stack development project helped to crystalize some critical understandings about connecting the Front End and Back End components of a web application. The app has a Sinatra-constructed backend of a many-to-many relationship between a set of 4 (fictional) Seattle Movie Theaters and…

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Jan 31

Creating the Louise Erdrich Fan App

As a concept for my first React App from scratch, I decided to build something that would allow users to interact with one of my favorite… — As a concept for my first React App from scratch, I decided to build something that would allow users to interact with one of my favorite authors, Louise Erdrich. Using her great works of fiction as the foundation, it’s an app in which I explore and build upon my skillset…

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Dec 15, 2021

Creating the Travel Book Base Camp App

The Travel Book Base Camp App I created uses data from the Project Gutenberg public API, giving this app access to an online library of… — The Travel Book Base Camp App I created uses data from the Project Gutenberg public API, giving this app access to an online library of over 60,000 books. In creating the app, there were some hurdles that I needed to solve for in order to make the app work the…

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Dec 15, 2021

Using Class and ID attributes in HTML

Targeting and manipulating elements of your html code using JavaScript is a critical step to making any web application interactive but in… — Targeting and manipulating elements of your html code using JavaScript is a critical step to making any web application interactive but in order to do that you need to ensure that you will be able to target the different elements of your HTML code. This means organizing and labeling your…

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