Amongst the things I found myself constantly referencing while building my first Rails app were Rails generators. You can check out the… — Amongst the things I found myself constantly referencing while building my first Rails app were Rails generators. You can check out the Rails Guides for more official documentation. Rails Guides — Generate What They Do Rails generators save a lot of time when building out your project. The rails g CLI command, AKA…

What is hoisting? — What is hoisting? Hoisting is a relatively new concept, which you will not find anything about in documentation prior to ES6. According to MDN: Hoisting is a term you will not find used in any normative specification prose prior to ECMAScript® 2015 Language Specification. Hoisting was thought up as a general way of…

Knowing the lingo matters — Knowing the lingo matters When it comes down to certain things in JS, they become second nature and as a developer I often will start writing certain code without giving a second thought to why I did it. “That’s just the way it is” or “You use x when you need y…” But as…

What is a thunk? — What is a thunk? A “thunk” is a term for a function that is returned by another function function normal_function() =>{ function thunk()={ console.log('I am the thunk'); } } Redux In Redux, we have actions, action creators, and reducers which we use to manage the state in our app. Actions Actions are simple objects. Ironically, although…

Today I put the final touches on my first CLI program that I wrote in Ruby. — Today I put the final touches on my first CLI program that I wrote in Ruby. Here is a link to the GitHub repo! The project was tough and I didnt know where to start. I thought that I would have it done over break but I didn’t even start…

Inheritance, Supers and Modules — Everything in Ruby is an object. As everything is an object, there are basic rules that every object will follow. All objects can inherit from another object. All objects can modify methods that are inherited Inheritance What is inheritance? If we look at the dictionary definition of inheritance, in other words…