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Cathy D'Onofrio
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·Mar 6, 2021

The Basics of Test Driven Development with Jest and Enzyme

Recently, I started learning Test Driven Development, (TDD). True to its name, this means tests are written before any functional code is written. …

Tdd

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The Basics of Test Driven Development with Jest and Enzyme
The Basics of Test Driven Development with Jest and Enzyme
Tdd

7 min read


Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Jan 12, 2021

Creating a Financial App with the Plaid API, Node.js/Express, and React

My final project for Flatiron was a budgeting tool, where users can create budgets by category and month and analyze them against their expenses. I’d have preferred to have done this with live transactions using the Plaid API, but unfortunately there wasn’t a ton of documentation for Ruby on Rails…

Fintech

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Creating a Financial App with the Plaid API, Node.js/Express, and React
Creating a Financial App with the Plaid API, Node.js/Express, and React
Fintech

6 min read


Dec 21, 2020

Refactoring a Plain Promise to Async / Await

When I was doing some research for a project I’m working on, I stumbled on the async/await syntax, which is the ES2017 way or writing a promise based fetch call. At Flatiron, had been taught using plain promises, although some of my classmates taught themselves async/await. Async/await is syntactic sugar…

Promises

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Refactoring a Promise-based Fetch Call to Async / Await
Refactoring a Promise-based Fetch Call to Async / Await
Promises

3 min read


Published in The Startup

·Nov 30, 2020

Ways to Use the Reduce Method in Javascript

Until recently, I only knew how to use reduce for its most common purpose — to sum up all elements in an array. I knew it was capable of more, but only dove into its many uses when I started preparing for technical interviews. It’s worth understanding the intricacies to…

Reduce

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Ways to Use the Reduce Method in Javascript
Ways to Use the Reduce Method in Javascript
Reduce

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Sep 10, 2020

Impostor Syndrome in a New Programming Career

We’re currently winding down Mod4 at the Flatiron school, which means that our job search will start in a little over three weeks. Many of us, myself included, only learned how to code this year by doing pre-work in the spring and starting bootcamp in the summer. …

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Impostor Syndrome in a New Programming Career
Impostor Syndrome in a New Programming Career

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Aug 18, 2020

Breaking Down Fetch

When we were first taught how to fetch in Javascript, I was a bit confused. I understood its overall concept, but I had trouble getting the exact logistics of it all straight beyond the GET method. So, I attempted to break it all down here. …

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Breaking Down Fetch
Breaking Down Fetch

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Jul 15, 2020

Mapping Associations in Ruby for ActiveRecord

I am somebody who likes to have a list: be it a to-do list, a shopping list, a packing list. If it’s not fully written down, there is a high chance I will get distracted, come back to it, and probably not do it quite as well. It is no…

Activerecord

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Mapping Active Record Associations in Ruby
Mapping Active Record Associations in Ruby
Activerecord

4 min read

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Cathy D'Onofrio

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Full stack developer based in Brooklyn, NY

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