After graduating from Flatiron School recently, I wanted to create a personal portfolio site. With a desire to keep my skills sharp, I decided to see how I could make up a portfolio site using React. As I was poking through the React documentation, I found that it recommended trying out Gatsby for static content-oriented sites. This seemed right up my ally for making up a MVP portfolio website… and onward the learning journey continued!
Yesterday was a surreal bittersweet moment. Yesterday, I handed in my final project for the Software Engineering Bootcamp course here at Flatiron School. My journey with learning coding with Flatiron has come to a close, yet this is just the beginning. I am so thankful for what I’ve learned at Flatiron School. I feel it has given me such a solid base of marketable skills and understanding that will springboard me into many years to come of continual learning and growth as a software engineer.
Profound title – I know. This past week I have been working on my final project - a shipment tracking web app named Shipd made with a React frontend and a Ruby on Rails backend. Now, this shipment tracking app is geared more toward small ebay sellers or a brick and mortar print and ship type shop — it allows you to see all the shipments you have created and run some basic reports over them.
One of the neatest things about Javascript is how event based it can be. Over the last few weeks as I dove into Javascript, I have really enjoyed how I can now do so much with manipulating DOM elements based on events that happen. One of the challenges I ran into during my latest project (a JS SPA frontend with a Ruby on Rails backend), was around using a modal to display my “create new…” type forms.
When I was a kid, my Mom made a deal with us kids. You go and pick the black raspberries, and I’ll make you a black raspberry crisp. We would bound off and search around our farm in the summer sun and return with containers full of berries. (The contains would have been more full if we wouldn’t have been popping berries in our mouth as we picked them.) She would then make us a black raspberry crisp from scratch (soooo tasty!). Sometimes the best things in life are those made from scratch.