Write Better JavaScript With Three Tier Architecture — A really great concept in programming is the use of logic, data, and presentation layers. However, since the data layer is so strongly tied to databases, layers often aren’t discussed until fairly late in one’s programming journey. If you learn about it early on though, it will really enhance your…

With Terminal Commands and a Docker Bonus — Postgres is my SQL flavor of choice, but I’m tired of Googling syntax, so here are all the commands I use with any regularity. I’m not going to explain anything so this will be short and sweet, but I’ve named everything correctly so looking things up should be easy. …

With Common Array Functions — One of the most crucial skills in JavaScript is understanding how higher-order and callback functions work. Simply put, a higher-order function is a function that: takes a different function as an argument and/or returns a new function. That’s it. A callback function is just the function that gets passed in…

Access models from the command line — The Rails Console is a phenomenal tool and what I missed most when moving to Node. However, when asking about how to add a Rails-like console to Node, the answers can be…vague:

Impress Your Next Interviewer — Knowing certain JavaScript one liners can save you valuable time while developing or interviewing. Here are some of my favorite “once you know, you know” snippets that I have actually used while coding. Only one of them is a bit code golf-y, and unsurprisingly it uses reduce. Wrap around a list Spinning is a…

Spoiler Alert: Maybe. — JavaScript Sets and Maps have been around for a few years now, but I still get a lot of questions about them. My students wonder if they should be substituting traditional objects and arrays with these new data types. …

How to stop thinking like a Jr. Dev — When you’re a jr. dev it’s all about the tech. What frameworks do you know, how many languages can you use, how many animations can you put into your portfolio site, and so on. But, as you advance in your coding career, things start to change. It becomes less about…

Easy code reviews are critical to successful projects — Asking people to code review your pull requests can be terrifying when you’re starting out. You don’t want to bother anyone, but your work has to be reviewed! Part of growing as a developer is asserting yourself more and putting your work out there, but there are steps you can…

JavaScript examples, no fibonacci needed — If you’ve struggled to learn Recursion by using fibonacci or exponential JavaScript functions, then this article is for you. I had trouble with recursion at first because there are almost 2 aspects of “math” based recursion: the actual recursion, and the ever changing return values. Luckily, if we remove the…