A coding newb, I still get a kick out of seeing the little things I code actually appear on a browser. It’s the tween in me. Anywho, back to the business of learning Next JS, which is a great React framework created by Vercel to create better apps, allowing TypeScript…

As I learn Next JS, I’m also building my CSS skills because the visual results are so awesome. This week, I was working on creating this cool layering of elements within a component that renders one element on top of another on hover. Rendering the products I did this by creating a quick…

Sorry about the title. Alliteration, no matter how corny or ridiculous, gives me the feels — warm, cozy feels. What is TypeScript? According to typescriptlang.org, “TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript, giving you better tooling at any scale.” Huh? So I looked it up for all of us…

I’ve been learning Next JS and want to provide a bit of an introduction to it. So why learn Next JS? Vercel developed Next JS to make React apps faster and stronger. Straight from the horse’s mouth, “Next.js is a flexible React framework that gives you building blocks to create fast web applications.” …

First, a cry for help. Have you ever tried using the same code in two similar projects and were confounded when one worked and one didn’t? If not, I hope you sleep well at nights. …

I successfully implemented the useEffect hook and would like to share some concepts and steps to review. Create a functional component First, since I’m working with hooks, I don’t need class components. I created a functional component and worked inside it. …

This is a topic I’ve needed to review many times to try to understand. I’m doing a course on Udemy called React with Hooks for Beginners right now to learn it systematically. I might have to break down my learning into a few posts. What are React hooks? According to the article “React Hooks,”…

To say my journey to tech has been long and sinuous like the village roads of Jane Austen’s novels is, well, apt. All but the closest people in my life raise an eyebrow or two when they hear I’m a software engineer now. …

I’m learning Google Analytics so that I can implement some trackers into a real website and part of me can’t really believe someone is trusting me with real code. Reminding myself that I’m an actual software engineer. I’m working on a practice repo to learn to track and was able…