React can be used with two different types of components, Classic (with state) and Functional (stateless). In the functional component you can add a state to it using Hooks. Make sure to import useState to it. So creating a hook would look like this:

There are two main ways into writing components. We could either use a class or function to define one. Components are basically functions that contain a mixture of JavaScript and HTML inside it. There are 3 important parts for a component. …

Here we go! Yarn and NPM are both package managers. What is a package? A package is a file or set of files containing pre-existing and reusable code. Packages can also be considered dependencies, as in an application could depend on a package to properly function. A package manager helps…

In all simple words there are 3 main tasks that a web application should do. One is be able to manipulate DOM. Create interactive events with the user. Communicate with the server, either sending or receiving data. Let’s go over manipulating the DOM. What is DOM? DOM = Document Object…

When creating software applications a lot of developers prefer JS, it allows the user to see updates while JS is working through functions. It isn’t really rendering AND working through logic at the same time. However, it does give the opportunity to render data to the page when it is…

Many to Many relationships are confusing and sometimes complicated to understand. I had the most trouble with this and this was the way I was able to better understand it. Here we will use Artist, song, and genre as an example. An artist can have many genres, and many genres…

At first the MVC might seem somewhat confusing and intimidating, but everyone can learn it. This is how I view the MVC. First, what does MVC stand for? Models, Views, and Controller. By connecting the model, controller and views, they can work together in order to help us create a…

This past month and half in the FlatIron boot camp has been real tough. I’m really glad to see that all my classmates and I are progressing, learning, and able to code so much more than we did our first week here. It is really admiring to see how much we’ve accomplished and hope to keep moving forward. Remember to keep working hard, keep your head up, study hard and code like you never have before. Here is a quick laugh to hopefully get some stress out of our systems.

Do you know how to learn? — I realized that an educational system gives so much knowledge, especially in college or a boot camp, without really teaching us how to absorb and retain it all. The knowledge given is plentiful, not including the other interests that you learn in your personal time. For example, you might could’ve…