Winecell: React-Redux portfolio project
I can’t believe I’m done with my last project!! These 3.5 months went flying!
Understanding Context, Scope, and Hoisting in Javascript
Context vs Scope (the short answer)
Parks-book: Now with jQuery!!
For the fourth project, Rails app with jQuery, I decided to keep working with my previous app, Parks-book. The goal of the project was to develop dynamic features through jQuery and JSON API. Honestly, I had fun using Javascript, but I had some challenges in coding what I wanted hahahaha!
Strong foundations lead to less 'buggy' applications
Just like houses need a strong foundation, an app needs a strong foundation to work well. For a while, I thought that I had functional understanding of how to set up ActiveRecord Associations (especially many-to-many relations), but it wasn’t until I started to explain to relationships in my Rails Portfolio App that I fully realize that something wasn’t clicking. I had to take a few steps back and read, write, practice, and verbalize (my mantra). In this post I will focus on the has_many through: !
Parks-book: a rails app
For the rails project portfolio, I decided to built a website, Parks-book, in which users can log their parks & trails visits. Users can log in and signup in the “normal way” or they can do it with their Facebook credentials.
The following is the project structure of the rails app: