I’ve created two projects before that involved user authorization, however neither involved using React.js to interface with Rails. …

This month was our JavaScript module and while I’ve had some cursory experience with this language in past, applying it to DOM manipulation and server requests was a challenge. Now that I’m reflecting on it, I think I felt the same way about the Sinatra project. With both of these…

I just finished my Rails portfolio project. I say that because I thought I was done a few days ago, but somehow things kept cropping up as I went down the list of specs we got from Flatiron School for this project. Little changes to one file would have rippling…

This week’s project was was definitely more complicated than the our CLI project. We were tasked with using Sinatra and Active Record to create a simple web app that allowed a user to register a password protected account. The user would then be able to create, edit, read and delete…

Route Finding and Code Writing This week we wrote our first portfolio projects! I settled pretty quickly on using the Mountain Project API to find climbing routes in an area provided by the user. There were a few moments of hesitance, moments of being lost or stuck. However, for the most part, I was pretty…

I’ll admit, I’ve had some second thoughts…. and I’d be lying if I said that they were completely put to rest at this point. But I’ve never been one to hem and haw over things that are beyond my control, so here we go. This being the very first blog…