Top 3 styling tools for web developers I consider myself to be a pretty creative person and I love all aspects of decorating and styling and prettying things up, so to speak, in real life. But when it comes to CSS, all my creativity goes out the window. I want…

Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB — Let me just preface by saying that because tech is always evolving, there is a multitude of databases out there, some are being developed as we speak. Back when the tech was still a newborn, you can pick one relational database and you could build a whole project. But in…

Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Big-O Notation Being a beginner in software development, there are an array of concepts to study and understand. However, there is one topic that trumps all. This topic can be quite a head scratcher especially when you are just starting out on your coding journey. That…

What is it and how it compares to React.js Being a new developer, I learned about React.js at Flatiron School but when I stumbled upon the word “React Native” on Google, it piqued my interest. What is React Native? When one thinks of the word ‘Native’, place of birth comes…

The 3 most popular backend frameworks In this second part, I will be talking about the most popular JavaScript backend frameworks. What is a backend framework? It is a software foundation where developers can make applications faster and in a standardized way. …

The 3 most popular front-end web development frameworks As a software developer newbie, I’ve often battle with the question “which language should I learn? Which framework should I be familiar with?” Being fresh out of a bootcamp where JavaScript and React were the core topics of the curriculum. Technology is…

… what is it? and why is it important? — A software engineer friend of mine gave me advice on topics he deemed important to prepare for interviews. He asked, “Do you know what Javascript prototype is?” I paused. He continued “if you don’t, you should definitely read about it. It will most likely be asked in your interview” —…

In object-oriented programming we know the significance of classes and objects. However, unlike other programming languages, JavaScript does not have the traditional classes like other languages. But JavaScript has objects and constructors which work mostly in the same way to accomplish the same kind of operations. Constructors Constructors are general…

Understanding the birth, growth and death of a component — Much like all of life on earth, we are born into the world, we grow and then ultimately face our death, components go through the same cycle in React. The process in which components are born, or mounting, grow, or updating, and then ultimately, die or unmounting is called Component…