Today I finished reading and working through the awesome book Bootstrapping Microservices, by Ashley Davis. What I accomplished: I build the complete FlixTube application along the way. This helped me solidify my hands-on experience with a rich list of technologies: JavaScript Node.js Express Docker Docker Compose …

Today I went through all of Scrimba's JavaScript interview challenges. The concepts covered are at the entry level coding interview questions: conditions and loops string operations functions array methods: map, filter, reduce, sort, and flat. fetch

Yesterday I started practicing solving coding challenges in JavaScript. In the past, I've used Java for that purpose. It's interesting to be using a syntactically similar yet different programming language to solve coding challenges. I think it speaks to a programmer's ability to become fluent in different programming …

As part of the preparation for a frontend job interview, here are some concepts I reviewed: Falsy values const, let, and var == vs === null vs undefined Data types Spread operator and rest operator Destructuring Git Agile and Scrum CSS selectors Responsive design Number issues Promises Pass by value vs pass by …

Solo Project Learnings Yesterday I submitted my Movie Watchlist solo project for review. Here are things I learned working on the project: Add charset to the <script> tag in your HTML, in order to ensure the HTML rendered using JS doesn't replace characters like the apostrophe ' with some weird characters. Use …

Code Reviews I'm enjoying performing a code review per day. I committed yesterday to doing 2 more code reviews in addition to the first one I did a couple of days ago. I created a list of all the solo projects I did so far as part of the program. I created a folder to include all the recaps of all the modules I studied …

Next Level JavaScript Yesterday I went through the following concepts: .reduce() => Ternary operator setTimeout() class You use this when defining a property inside the constructor. Outside the constructor, you don't use the function keyword to define a method, or this to declare a property.

Next Level JavaScript I continue studying through the Next Level JavaScript module. Yesterday I went through the following concepts: object destructuring .map() .join() to convert an array to a string new Array() .fill() to fill a newly created array with items constructor functions this methods Object.assign(target, …

KCNA Yesterday I attended the first part of the O'Reilly KCNA Crash Course with Sander van Vugt. It was a good review of the material I already studied in the Linux Foundation course Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials. The first part covered Cloud Native, Containers, and Kubernetes. Today it will go through the …

Frontend Developer Path Yesterday I kicked off two modules in parallel: Module 6: This is about responsive design. I looked at relative units like % and em. Module 11: This is about basic React. I looked at JSX and why learning React is a good investment.