If you haven’t seen Part 1 Using React to Make a Video Player or Part 2 Getting the YouTube Search bar working in React, where have you been? Get out! None of this will make sense! Go check it out now! First, like all components, our app won’t know about…

We want to be able to mimic the functionality of the search bar like on the youtube page but in our own project. Luckily, YouTube allows you to make calls to their api and returns you video objects back to manipulate as you like. …

Implementing YouTube’s search in a React App I’m going to walk through the steps I took to implement youtube’s api search function and set up a basic video list and video rendering. If you’re boss enough to figure out youtube api’s documentation, you can find it here- https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search or follow…

If you’re like me, you’re bad with documentation (don’t tell anyone) and reading it sometimes seems like a foreign language that senior devs created to mess with the juniors (it’s definitely working). If you’re confident you can figure it out, feel free to check out react’s official documentation here: https://reactjs.org/docs/create-a-new-react-app.html Setting up …

Ever been given a CSV file and not sure what to do with it to start querying data? Let’s do it the quick and easy way in your terminal. Make sure you have sqlite3, if you are on OSX 10.4 or higher, you most likely have SQLite already installed. …

My first project using React/Redux for the frontend and a Rails backend was a difficult feat…in the beginning. I had went through labs and readings as part of the curriculum but I didn’t really feel like I understood what was happening and always felt like I needed help. A lot…

Javascript is unique, there are peculiar conventions for how variables and functions can be used as well as where and how different variables can be used when placed in places in your code. These ideas are called scope and hoisting. Scope When we talk about scope, we are referring to…

RESTful routing has changed the way users interact without sites as well as improved how we as program create, name, organize, and understand our route patterns. Previously, when naming our url routes, random letters and numbers were used which was gibberish to the user and to us programers. …

Understanding MVC is important when building interactive webpages and ensuring that your web application is working the way you want it to work. Let’s start with understanding routes. Routes are like the direction you want your web application to take. If the user wants the main page, you set your…