A mini-rewrite case study of two testing libraries — Learnings from a recent conversion At Flatiron School, we have been adding a ton of new test coverage using Kent Dodd’s React Testing Library. Check out my other blog posts on React testing (Creating Readable Tests Using React Testing Library & Testing Async React Hooks)for some awesome tips on using the tool (I know, I…

Reacting to Context If you’ve recently been hearing a lot about the new React Context API and wanted to know more about it, this post is for you. …

Learn how to test drive your React code with BDD testing. — At Flatiron School, we’ve started using React to build almost all of our new client-side projects, as well as converting some of our older Backbone + Marionette apps to React. This has led to a concise and more performant code base on our front end and allowed us to…

Now with Webpack as default asset bundler — Today I was trying to setup the new Phoenix 1.4 dev beta, because of its new default Webpack 4 setup (related: check out our recent post on how Flatiron School optimized Webpack for faster page loads). …

In part 1 we built a restful api using rails. In part 2 we built up our asset pipeline to use angular, and installed bower. In part 3 we built a basic angular app with nested routes using UI.router. In part 4 we are going to use $resource to make…

Part: 3 Routing with ui.router — In this section we are going to use ui.router to make routes for our Note app. Step: 1 Building some routes Let’s delete our {{ “Hello “ + “World” }} from our app/views/application/index.html.erb and add the following code. # app/views/application/index.html.erb <div class="angular-view-container" ui-view></div> the ui-view is how ui.router …

Part 2: Adding Angular to the Rails Project Step: 1 To add angular to our rails project we need to add the bower rails gem to our #Gemfile #Gemfile gem 'bower-rails' Step: 2 Now we need to install the gem $ bundle install this will install bower so that we can start installing dependencies using bower. Step: 3 We need to initialize the bower.json…

function newPath(language, time, effort){ }; newPath("JavaScript", 0, "100%"); I have officially been learning to code for 5 months now. The road has been a tough one for sure, but one of the most rewarding ones. Considering this time in September, 2015 I could not write a single line of code. …

It’s been a couple of week since my last post, but I have returned with a new project to talk about. I am on my 10th week with Flatiron’s Learn Verified online coding bootcamp, and the difficulty has ramped up. …