The Journey: Learning to Code One Day at A Time.

React + Ts Cannot use JSX unless

If you see the following error syntax highlighting in VS Code for your Typescript and React app:

Cannot use JSX unless the ‘ — jsx’ flag is provided.ts(17004)

Assigning variables in JavaScript

Today I learned one of the most useful things about JS. So it’s crazy but I didn’t know that when a variable is assigned to a value it’s behavior is different. For primitive data types like strings, numbers and booleans when a variable is assigned a value that value is…

Spring Cleaning for the bootcamp

So I’m getting ready to start Hack Reactor’s bootcamp and I figured I’d get my machine re-vitalized. Today I performed a clean installation of macOS and started everything from scratch. This means I also need to set up my dev environment. Iv’e chosen to scrap my old…

Ruby scope basics

So I was reviewing some of the basics of ruby to fill in holes in my understanding. Something I liked a ton was the scoping of variables in ruby.

There are variable types for 4 scopes:

$globalVar
@@classVar
@instanceVar
localVar