This project gave me an absolute tonne of learning opportunities and experience – from refactoring existing code to using new technologies – all packed within less than two days. I really enjoyed it!
Category: JavaScript
Getting a user’s location enables you to do things like show it on a map, provide information about the location, serve up personalised content, and more.
Getting that initial geolocation data is probably easier than you think.
Being able to build digital products is such an enabler.
This project was a great example of experiencing a problem or difficulty and, having enough knowledge to understand how a solution could work, being able to just go ahead and build it and fill in any gaps by learning along the way.
I recently followed two tutorials from the very endearing Dev Ed on YouTube where he created the very same To Do app in different ways; once in vanilla Javascript and again in React. It only took an hour or two to make each one, but it was a really interesting process.
Here’s what I learned…
Understanding asynchronous javascript – and working with APIs generally – can really take your horizons to a whole new level. There are countless APIs out there that suddenly become available to you; whether that’s free datasets or triggering functionality in your favourite product.
The world is your lobster!
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ES6 Arrow Functions Explained
Arrow functions are my personal favourite addition to Javascript that came along with ES6. Find out how to use them.
With ES6, we can do string concatenation in a more natural way that improves readability. It’s super simple!
In the interest of writing quicker, cleaner and clearer code, ES6 array helper methods are the bees knees.
Having gone through a video course of his some years ago, Wes Bos made a lasting impression on me as someone that could make learning to code really enjoyable and explain relatively complex concepts in an easy-to-understand way. So, when I embarked on this journey to learn React and wanted to go beyond freeCodeCamp’s intro course, I knew where to go next: his React for Beginners course.