The first time I remember writing “code”, I was in 8th grade. I was the president of the Technological Student Association and our…
Over the years I’ve had to learn a handful of protocols and formats for exchanging data between client and server or between services in an internal system. They all have…
The React world is in love with Higher Order Components . They let us write logic for our components once inside a component and reuse that…
Let’s suppose that we have a string of characters that may or may not contain words and we have an array of possible words. Let’s try to find all of the words in the string!
First, we are gonna want to make a function that compares two strings. Since we are…
There is a lot of talk these days about functional programming and all of the buzzwords Fantasyland tries to explain. It appears from the outside that you must understand…
Pulling Data
Let’s assume that we are going through an array of objects (say, users) and we want to return to the user’s name and avatar url. We could use forEach, pull the data out of the array…
WordPress touts an impressive “5 minute” install, getting the client and developer into the environment the end-user will be experiencing. I wanted to be able to get an app up on a server somewhere to show my friends without having to do the rigmarole of…
The first time I tried an AJAX request, I couldn’t even figure out what the documents were trying to tell me or how to configure that thing in the squiggly lines between the parentheses to make it magically show text on my screen let alone knew what the A…