Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Mar 6, 2021The Basics of Test Driven Development with Jest and EnzymeRecently, I started learning Test Driven Development, (TDD). True to its name, this means tests are written before any functional code is written. …Tdd7 min readTdd7 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Jan 12, 2021Creating a Financial App with the Plaid API, Node.js/Express, and ReactMy 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…Fintech6 min readFintech6 min read
Dec 21, 2020Refactoring a Plain Promise to Async / AwaitWhen 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…Promises3 min readPromises3 min read
Published in The Startup·Nov 30, 2020Ways to Use the Reduce Method in JavascriptUntil 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…Reduce5 min readReduce5 min read
Sep 10, 2020Impostor Syndrome in a New Programming CareerWe’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. …3 min read3 min read
Aug 18, 2020Breaking Down FetchWhen 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. …3 min read3 min read
Jul 15, 2020Mapping Associations in Ruby for ActiveRecordI 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…Activerecord4 min readActiverecord4 min read
