Bootstrap your Firebase + React project

1. Create a Firebase account
2. Create a new project
3. Go to Hosting
4. Select Get started and follow the steps (install the CLI, create a directory for your project and initialize it with…

Install VS Code plus a few extras (for Node, React, and React Native)

So far I tried Atom, VS Code, and a few others. VS Code is my favorite because… auto-complete, extensions, integrated terminal, Git integration, side-by-side tabs, etc.

Why JavaScript?

I’ve learned a few different programming languages (C, C++, Java, C#, etc.) since I started coding more than 15 years ago, but in the past few years JavaScript is the one that I keep going back to. Here is why:

• Learn once, use everywhere — I can write all of the types of…

Hosting, database, cloud storage, auth? All figured out? Free?

Punchline: Try Firebase

The sign of a great service is one that solves your problems in the simplest possible way and doesn’t make you feel dumb while using it. So far Firebase have…

Getting started with JavaScript/ES6 (for Node JS)

WTF is ES6?

Well technically it is called ES2015 or ECMAScript 2015, but many docs refer to it as ES6. Practically it just adds a bunch of new features to JavaScript. If you have only been using JavaScript in…