Introduction If you are into software development you have no doubt heard of the Javascript runtime environment known as NodeJS. I even tried to provide a glimpse of how this technology can be utilized to interact with local files and also serve html as a server in a previous article. In…

Introduction As far as web frameworks go React-Native provides obvious advantages. The most obvious one is the ability to develop native apps for mobile devices while at the same time creating a web app to be run on a PCs browser. As I have mentioned in past articles React-Native makes use…

Preface If you are in to web development or have been browsing the job boards for software engineering positions lately you’ve most likely come across mention of the term ‘Node’ or ‘NodeJS’. This blog post will seek to cover the history of this technology, a bit on how it works, and…

Introduction As I continue my education by learning Typescript I start to wonder how I can use it within web frameworks. One of the frameworks I have experience in is React, and I’ve recently began studying how to incorporate the new with the old. In this blog post I will cover…

Introduction If you are in the web developing world you most likely are well versed in javascript. If not I implore you to checkout some resources regarding javascript and typescript before continuing with this article. If you are using multiple script tags within your html header there are some tricks such…

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…