Web Development

Lesson 7: What is React?

Talk about a loaded question. There has been a bit of a gap between this post and my last one and the reason is: trying to sum up React into one singular post proved more of a challenge than I originally thought. What should I include? Will it be too much? Not enough? So, here’s my go…

Lesson 6: ES6+

This is kind of a long post, this lesson covered a lot!

Lesson 5: Scope

Scope can get dicey, so I’ll dive right in and do my best to explain what I’ve learned.

Scope is variable visibility; if code can modify or access a variable, it is in that variable’s scope. Scope is the accessibility of functions, variables, and objects in some particular…

Lesson 4: JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a set of text formatting rules that stores and transfers data in both a machine- and human-readable way; it is a lightweight data interchange format.

The main things to know about JSON are:

• It is made up of keys…

Lesson 3: AJAX

For the sake of completeness, I’m going to start with what AJAX is an acronym for, which is: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. I’ll get into what AJAX does in a sec, but first, I want to explain what the heck ‘Asynchronous’ even means.

Lesson 2: Events & Callbacks

First- what the heck is an event?

Why Learn React?

There is not one specific reason I want to learn React. It’s more a combination of reasons: I’ve been trying to step my game up on Vanilla JS lately, and my original plan was to eventually migrate over to React. That was the plan until I saw an awesome job posting! They wanted someone who could…