This week marks the end of 411. It’s been an interesting journey to get here. I’ve learned quite a bit along the way and made some new friends. But this truly marks the beginning of a long adventure into something new and uncharted. I finally get going on my capstone…

The ‘thunk’ package was introduced this week. Thunk introduces a very useful solution to asynchronous functions for React. Especially since react doesn’t have one. By default, everything in React is synchronous and follows the typical event loop. But by adding Thunk to a project, asynchronous middleware can be called into…

Ok. That title is a stretch but it’s not easy to come up with a good pun about state management without making fun of Florida. Redux’s ability to manage a global state and dispatch actions to affect and update them is a pretty useful package for React. The way everything…

This week introduced the React Router. And although I’ve worked a little with other routers through APIs this feels like another thing with a familiar feel. The React Router allows for the development of single page dynamic sites. It creates routes that can be linked like different pages and return…

This week has delved deeper into React and all that goes with it. Through experimentation and classwork, I found a very useful way to pass props. Typically, props are passed down to child elements. But there are ways to pass props and other information back up to parent elements. This…

React is growing on me. It’s been a little slow to get there. But now I’m able to see and put together how it create dynamic elements. Although I feel like there is still a long road to being completely comfortable with it. One of the important things I learned…

This week starts the final section of this bootcamp. It’s exciting and scary at the same time. Even though I’m almost done learning what Austin Coding Academy has to teach me, there is still no end the learning that can, and probably will, happen. …

This week brings about the end of 311 and our short break before 411. It’s been an interesting section. And I’ve learned quite a bit about creating express servers and making use of cloud storage systems. Little by littler, we’re getting closer to the end. …

At first glance, I don’t get react. Yet. The little bit we’ve done I’ve just followed along with a tutorial and enter in what I’m supposed to enter. But there is still a lot to understand about what I’m doing. The next section of class will shed more light. But…