React Practice With GraphQL
Hello, and Welcome to my blog! Recently I have been working through some tutorials from Thinkster.io. In this blog post, I will be reviewing my experience going through the React and Redux tutorial. I completed the tutorial using the GraphQL API I made. The tutorial uses a REST API, so I had to make lots …
NodeChat Development
Have gotten a bunch of PR’s this past week, since this is the last week of class. Everyone is finishing up their release 4, which means the project has made some great progress. We now have the continuous integration system Travis, that helps with managing the app. And, we are working on es-lint and prettier, …
Continue development of chat app.
Development on the chat app has been going good. Few things I would like to get finalized would be a continued integration system, linting, tests and database. I think travisCI would be a great addition to the repo. Took a class today that explained how to implement travisCi into a GitHub repo. It looks like …
Maintaining a GitHub Project
Wow I now have a much better understanding of the life of a project maintenance, after this week. So, a few classmates have now joined the NodeChat Project, the week started simple by me posting a bunch of issues for everyone to work on. But, once they started to work in the project, they started …
Hacktoberfest 2018 – My experience
Hacktoberfest 2018, was a great learning experience for me. I was able to find a great project for this event, that fit my interest’s and ability’s. Starting this event was a bit challenging, I knew I wanted to work with something with java script. And I also, wanted to work on more front end development. …
Hacktoberfest – Added user is typing… feature using React and SocketIO
This blog post covers my 5th pull request of Hacktoberfest 2018!!!! For a few days I wasn’t sure if I would be able to reach the 5 PR goal. I got super busy with another project, which I may put a blog post up about that project sometime. I was able to work hard on …
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Hacktoberfest – Bug Fixes and Styling in NodeChat app.
For my 3rd and 4th pull request of Hacktoberfest, I didn’t work on much new technology, like in my previous pull request’s. Instead I thought I would fix a bug that was added during the move from a jQuery site to a React site. And I added some styling to the messages on the NodeChat …
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Hacktoberfest – Adding sound and images to a React app
Hey everyone, It seems like allot of people like to over complicate adding sound and images in React. They will often make a whole separate class to control their sound or image files. Which definitely has its place, if your sound or images needs bunch of options then definitely make a class to control it. …
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Hacktoberfest Week Two – React and Push.js
In this week of Hacktoberfest, I added push notifications to the Node Chat project in my most recent Pull request. I used the Push.js library in order to accomplish this task. Well learning how to do this, I din’t find much documentation on using Push.js with React so I put together a small tutorial for today’s …
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Hacktoberfest Week One
In my first week of Hacktoberfest I started off without any particular project in mind. I had a few ideas of what I wanted to work on, so I started by searching GitHub for a project. I was looking for something using JavaScript or C++. After searching for a while I came across a application …
Sept 14, 2019: First Blog Post
Welcome to my first blog post! My name is Corey, I am currently a student at Seneca college. I am in my 5th semester of the Computer Programming and Analysis Program.