I’ve been doing a lot of reading up on Javascript this week and I thought I would share a few articles I found that were really interesting and helpful!
This week I have been doing several code alongs to keep things fresh in my mind and to learn some new techniques. As I was searching around I found a very cool blog on Medium about using the react-rails gem to create a CRUD app. When I started reading it I was happily suprised to see it was written by a fellow Flatiron grad ! (shoutout to Lucya Koroleva) It’s a very cool article which you can check out here : https://medium.com/quick-code/simple-rails-crud-app-with-react-frontend-using-react-rails-gem-b708b89a9419
This week I’m at a big family reunion. While we were chatting away someone asked me basically what programming was and how the whole thing worked. I found it really interesting trying to explain modern web apps in the least technical terms possible. Explaining the concept of the DOM and SPA’s was very challenging. But what I noticed was that by forcing myself to think it through enough to explain things it really helped clarify concepts in my mind. Walking someone that has no tech knowledge through how an app runs is a really good way to zoom out a bit and really look at the process as a whole. It helped challenge my understanding and really think things through so I could explain myself.
This week has felt like a bit of a grind. I’ve been putting in a lot of job applications and pretty much waiting to hear back from a lot of folks. It’s had that hurry up and wait kind of feeling that can be pretty frustrating. I felt stuck in a rut a bit by this and tried a couple things that kind of helped…
Exactly one week ago I had a technical interview for Javascript and React. This afternoon I had a technical interview for Rails. A couple weeks ago I was studying furiously for the JS interview. Going over algorithms and reading and re-reading concepts that I had trouble grasping.