VS vs BS Visual Studio Code is a free and open-source editor used for building modern web applications. Personally it is the only editor I write code in and has been instrumental in my growth as a developer. One of the great things about VScode is its many extensions. Extensions let you add…

The Problem While coding on a project recently I ran into a situation while making an API request. The POST request (being sent from my frontend in REACT) in question was running into a security problem. Since I was sending a request from the client-side, it was violating a CORS preflight check…

Route Route Baby React Router allows for client-side routing and navigation without the need for page reloading. As such it is an incredibly powerful and lightweight way to navigate around single page applications. …

No Chill Sesh? My latest Ruby on Rails project brought me back to the confusing world of the session. Sessions always gave me a slight headache. There is a ton of reference material online but there never seemed a definitive way to start and end a session using JWT authentication that seemed satisfying…

Fizzwha? If you have spent any time at all looking for coding jobs you have at least heard about FizzBuzz in passing. The coding problem has been used in interviews for years to determine if a candidate knows how to write code. It goes like this: Write a program that prints…

Tales From a Gitwit Software developers from any background and experience level will most certainly have dealt with Github at some point. The online code-hosting platform is the most popular way for developers to collaborate on projects across the globe. …

Faraday the Pains Away Michael Faraday was one of the most important scientists in history. His discoveries in electromagnetism and electrochemistry changed the world and continue to influence our daily lives to this day. While it doesn’t share anything besides his name, the Faraday gem will similarly make your life easier. …

Git Gone I was recently coding on a Ruby/React app feature requiring a fetch to a third party’s database. The fetch required 5 different keys, including account id’s and a secret key, which I didn’t want anybody to see. My first impulse was to send the request on the client side but…

Table With Columns Instead of Legs? Structured Query Language or SQL is the language of databases. With SQL we have already covered how to write basic queries in order to find columns and/or rows matching specific conditions generated in our SQL statements. …