Introduction Perhaps you’ve heard the term ‘SQL’ before or even from its common pronunciation “sequel”, and have often wondered what it is? SQL or Structured Query Language has been around since the early 1970s and was developed by IBM as a way to manipulate and extract records from a database. The…

Introduction As I continue to learn software development after boot camp I try to prioritize what I should learn in order to improve my skills. I keep a running list of requirements that come up frequently in job postings and I’m learning them one at a time. One thing that seems…

Introduction If you like to use an object oriented approach to writing code in javascript, and use typescript to compile said javascript, you should learn about decorator functions. As I continue to learn typescript I started to notice odd ‘at’ symbols when examining typescript code that compiles to class based javascript…

Introduction For those who are familiar or in the process of learning typescript (as I am) you’ve undoubtedly come across some similarities between object types and interfaces. As I myself learned delved into the use cases for both object types interfaces I came across a peculiar scenario: They both seem to…

Introduction If you are new to software development or writing software in general one of the first things you should learn along side of your first language is version control. Imagine the following: You are working on a team of software engineers. Each person is contributing to the same project. How…

Introduction Typescript is additional syntax used to add types to javascript and can be used to compile code to javascript. In a previous article I covered how to use typescript with a single .ts file to compile into a single javascript file by using the tsc <filename> command in terminal. As…

Recently I attended a coding meetup where there was a presentation on typescript. I was left so inspired by what I saw and learned that I immediately signed up for classes to find out more about this useful tool. Previously I had been noticing the requirement for aptitude with typescript…

In this article we will be covering how include some handy icons in your react native app using expo. I always use expo when creating my react native applications, one of the features included in expo by default is a library of icons you can use as components within your…

As with a related framework react, react-native is composed of multiple components that use JSX to create a custom UI. The main difference is of course that react-native converts its JSX to the native components for whatever mobile device is viewing it. These days Apps are rarely composed of a…