Discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. — I learned how to handle fetch calls using useEffect in a react component. the problem: When to fetch data from the database and update it to the redux state? …

Discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. — This week I learned how to create a backend with express and how to make your back end and front end live in the same folder and run on the same port to serve data from your api. This article helped me: https://dev.to/loujaybee/using-create-react-app-with-express The two most helpful bits of code…

Discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. — I learned a very clever way of updating just a single object out of an array stored in state. …

discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. — I learned a little about how hooks work in react to allow functional components to hold state, and useEffect in a way similar to componentDidMount, componentDidUpdate and componentWillUnmount How does hoisting work in JavaScript? Within a block of code, declared variables and functions are ‘hoisted’ to the top of the code, so you could use a…

Discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. — What is render() in React? And explain its purpose? Render() is one of the main component life-cycle methods of class components. When the component first mounts and everytime the component updates, the render method is called to re-render the component in the dom. The render method adds the component and all child-components / jsx to the DOM.

Discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. I learned how to make a form input, where you don’t have to hit enter or move focus for the react app to fetch new data. First I tried creating a call to fetch in componentDidUpdate(), but this fetched to quickly whenever a user entered every character, plus after the…

Discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. I learned that now in react, you don’t have to use the constructor function at the beginning of your class-based components. Also, that if you declare a class-based component function with es6 arrow function syntax const handleCLick = ()=> {} you no longer have to bind the the function to…

Can you explain the purpose of each type of HTTP Request when using a RESTful web service? GET — to retrieve resources POST — to create a resource PUT — to update a resource DELETE — to delete a resource What’s a test pyramid? How can you implement it when talking about HTTP APIs? A test pyramid describes that when writings test cases there should be a lot more low-level unit tests than high level end-to-end tests.

Tell me about a project you’re particularly proud of. What did you do that worked out well? Right now i’m very proud of my brightbird music app. This app takes a client id, then fetches all students for that client, then for each student, the app fetches teachers who teach that instrument for the age, and teach in that zip code. then, the app fetches the schedule…