Wrapping up the blog I posted and the series on creating a real-time chat application and then deploying the API to Heroku, I wanted to go over deploying the frontend and React component to Netlify and getting an actual application up and running on the internet. Much like deploying on…

Introduction Deploying to Heroku is relative simple and the guide on the website is very accurate and concise. This blog post will restate a lot of the stuff in that guide. …

I spent many hours trying to connect subscribers with Action Cable, a technology in Rails that is capable of integrating Websockets in an application. Websockets are a TCP protocol like HTTP is a protocol but is made with the intention of sending data to and from multiple clients. In order…

Data Structures and Binary Trees There are plenty programming data structures each with their own characteristics, pros and cons. A data structure is just a way to organize data to be usable. Examples include arrays, linked-list, matrixes, and binary tress. Binary trees are defined by nodes and up to 2 children, a left and right…

URL parameters or sometimes called query strings is a concept of structuring additional information in the URL. The parameters follow a “?” and multiple parameters are separated by the ‘&’. These parameters are great ways to include additional data that is readily available and accessible at all times. For example, if our url looked something like this https://www.videostreaming.com/watch?cat_memes

The access modifier is the keyword that precedes all other keywords when creating a class, method or even a variable. There are four keywords, public, private, protected & default, each with different levels of access. I believe it be best practice to start with the lower access levels and more…

Efficiency in algorithms is very important when it comes to scaling and sizing. Total execution time and space required for an algorithm can be the difference between a seamless experience and one that is laggy and robust. Let’s quickly run through a practical example, this is algo to calculate whether…

Importing styled components into your React applications can bring peace and mind to styling your front-end. Before styled components I would struggle to maintain .css files with 100+ lines of code. When you factor in the many components that any React project may have it can become incredibly difficult and…

This blog will examine arrays in JavaScript and how to manipulate the elements inside and predict outcomes. In order to illustrate this we will look at common entry level interview questions and walk through them to better understand arrays and how to approach problems in a similar vein. I. Palindrome A common…