React Native Push Notifications with Firebase Cloud Functions

Google’s new Cloud Functions service for…

The Modern Development Stack Overview

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From Create-React-App to Hosting on Firebase

You’ve created an app using create-react-app and you’re ready to share it with the world! Here’s how to host your application on Firebase.

1. Create a Firebase account

Hire a Student – Overview

In high school, I started a business that connected high school students with homeowners for jobs like babysitting, yard work, and tutoring. I called this business LaborLion, and I learned a lot about entrepreneurship and web design building it. Now, as part of a directed reading…

Next and Now: Alternative starting sequence

While it is a good idea to understand the standard React starting procedure…

Build a Modern Application – Part One

Project initialization

Create Github repo

Tools for Web-Dev Prototyping

Now that we have our ideas and a general plan of the problems we are trying to solve, we decided to get started with prototyping, a process as iterative as it is informative. This step requires starting from scratch over and over again, tweaking color schemes and design flows…

Lessons from the Design Phase, Told in Quotes

“Designers never stop at one sketch.”

— Tim Brown, IDEO

When designing for a project, especially one that has a multiple steps, it’s easy to overlook the value of solidifying…

Anonym — Overview

In the spring of my freshman year, I began writing for the student-run newspaper on campus. My chief motivations being to…