Software Engineering Technology Certifications and Educational Achievements

Next-generation JavaScript uses arrow functions, let, const, and other updated syntax — Next-generation JavaScript could be thought of as the latest version of ECMAScript, the standardized specification for JavaScript. Each version endeavors to improve upon and add new functionality to this increasingly popular programming language. JavaScript has taken over the world of software development. According to Codeburst.io, JavaScript is the top programming…

One of the most important things to remember about using state properly in React is to always avoid changing state directly. For example, you would not do the following: this.state.comment = 'Hey!'; this is really wrong! this.setState({comment: 'Hey!'}); this is how you do it! this.state can only be assigned in…

Although handling events with React Elements is much like handling events on DOM elements, there are unique differences with React’s approach to altering the user interface (UI). React has a special wrapper called SyntheticEvent that forms part of its Event System. It promotes cross-browser compatibility and makes it easier on…

Over the past few months, I was invited to several interviews for potential JavaScript software engineering roles. I took note of the concepts and topics on which I was being quizzed since I observed the same questions reappearing. Below I will discuss a few of the topics I was asked…

After reading a book titled “Think Learn Succeed” by Dr. Caroline Leaf, I decided to make an app to help myself and others journal what we are thankful for in life in order to cultivate a mindset of gratitude to improve cognitive health. I learned that gratefulness quickly improves mental…

The JavaScript array object is a global object that is used in the construction of arrays; which are high-level list-like objects. They are pure vanilla JavaScript concepts that are important to understand and are also relevant to React projects since React is simply JavaScript. Many React concepts center around working…

Both arrays and objects are types of JavaScript data structures. Their building blocks are numbers, Booleans and strings. Objects are similar to arrays, except that instead of using indexes to access and modify their data, you access the data in objects through what are called properties. An object property is…

On January 31 to February 1, 2019, I had the opportunity to attend the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, UT with the rest of my cohort at the University of Utah Professional Education Web Development Certificate Program powered by DevPoint Labs…

In the following article, I will describe how to use the fetch API to get all elements from an internal database server, use PATCH to edit those elements and manipulate the DOM using JavaScript. …