Jacob ShortinJavaScript in Plain EnglishRedux: Hook, Line, and SimpleThe React Redux guides are a bit verbose, to say the least, so I am hoping this quick start guide is simpler.Jan 17, 2021Jan 17, 2021
Jacob ShortinJavaScript in Plain EnglishWhy Engineers Should Have Yearly ThemesTl;dr — Make a theme of how you want to grow for the foreseeable future. Something like ‘year of backend’ or ‘year of challenges’ if you…Jan 13, 20211Jan 13, 20211
Jacob ShortinJavaScript in Plain EnglishSetting Up Auth Guards with React RouterRendering certain routes or pages based on a user’s authentication is important and that’s why I was surprised to see that my googling…Jan 5, 2021Jan 5, 2021
Jacob ShortHow I Learned to CodeI am going to share the journey of how I learned to code in a series and continue to share the journey once I get a job. One thing that is…Dec 26, 2020Dec 26, 2020
Jacob ShortLearning Node.js After RailsI started learning Ruby and the rails in Flatiron Coding Bootcamp somewhere around October of 2020; which is approximately two vaccines…Dec 6, 2020Dec 6, 2020
Jacob ShortinThe StartupRepresentational State Transfer (REST) Is a Convention That Is Simple and Much Needed in a…There are seven primary paths we use in Ruby on Rails. Get requests are pretty self-explanatory, they get data from a server. The naming…Nov 5, 2020Nov 5, 2020
Jacob ShortArguments, should you have them, and when. In Ruby.In Ruby you can set default argument to your functions like in many languages and there seems to be a need for hash argument information.Oct 17, 2020Oct 17, 2020