If you’re interested in Front End Development, you’ll have to learn the three fundamental languages to creating a website: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. TypeScript, however, has been growing in popularity since it’s release in 2012 and has been considered a promising language to be adopted by many front end developments…

A brief intro to the console The console can be a developer's most trusted tool. Developers know that using the console can help them debug their code. It throws error messages when your code isn’t compiled correctly and can print whatever you explicitly tell it to by using the console object. From the official MDN web…

Technical interviews can be conducted in many ways. Some companies will send you a coding assessment to complete at home. Others will have a pair programming session with you to build an app using the languages and frameworks you claim to know on your resume. …

JavaScript is a dynamically typed language To understand coercion, we first need to recognize that JavaScript (JS) is a dynamically typed language. What does that mean? It means that JS does not require the explicit declaration of the variables before they’re used. Here is a quick example that compares Java, a statically typed language, vs. JavaScript.

Learning JavaScript is fun and exciting, especially when you are looking to become a frontend developer. Many frontend frameworks are all written in JavaScript such as React, Angular, and Vue. However, when starting off learning by using these frameworks, the foundations they were built on can easily be overlooked. One…

This is a follow-up blog post I wrote called “Test-Driven Development (TDD): why every programmer should learn it.” Read it on Level Up Coding here. Full disclosure, the concepts laid out in this blog post are derived from a Udemy course by Boris Paskhaver. Check it out here. There are…

When it comes to programming, testing your code is just as important to a developer as the actual code itself. Some may argue that it’s even more important. Why is that, you ask? Writing your own test before you code forces you to think about how it should work. This…

I’m currently residing in Seattle, WA where I have considered my home for the past two years. I was born and raised in California, but the urge for a new perspective had me itching to move, so here I am! …

When learning React, you could easily discover the allure of component-based coding and ask yourself why you didn’t make all your previous projects on this high-advantage JavaScript library. Code re-usability, consistency, and maintainability are just a few advantages React components offer. …