I recently graduated coding bootcamp which I felt broke me down in many ways, but I came out in the end by staying positive and not giving up. The imposter syndrome is so real, even to this day, especially when you are changing careers. It is easy to become overwhelmed…

If you’re coming across this article, you’re probably learning the difference between the two functions that are called by the connect function. mapDispatchToProps is the second function passed into connect. It is the dispatching of actions as props to the store, giving us access to the dispatch function. Down in…

An analogous tale of how fetch and .then work in Javascript. Fetch is a function that interacts with a database by retrieving, uploading, editing, and deleting data. One of the best ways I can understand coding concepts is to translate them into a real life scenario. …

I have been so curious and excited to see what Javascript is going to teach me. In the late 90’s, there was only HTML. There was no CSS or Javascript at the time. I was part of this selected group of high school kids in Manila (I got in through…

Like most millennials these days who spend too much time on the internet inevitably coming across their daily affirmation via their favorite (and not so favorite) social media platforms making them regress into their mental cocoon of dopamine — (10 points for Gryffindor if you said it in the voice)…

Here I am at 36 years old having just completed my first CLI project as part of Flatiron School’s Full Time Software Developer Program. By complete, I meaning my code worked. I still have my assessment to pass. It only took 12 straight hours and 15 mins of crying- a…