With the recent implementation of a rich text editor, I was tasked with creating a button with a nice icon to replace the look of the traditional input of type color. If you’ve never seen what the input of type color looks like, you can see a reference to it…

There have been many times where I’ve wanted to ‘do something’ when clicking outisde of an element. For example, if there is a dropdown that is open, clicking outside of it should close it. Clicking outside of a modal should close it. So the question is how do we do that? Add a reference to the element of interest (ex: Dropdown container, modal container) Add a useEffect, add event listener, and remember to unmount your event listener logic.

I was working on a project not too long ago where my goal was to add a rich text editor to the platform. We found an open source project to incorporate called TipTap. This made it easy to add all the fanciness to rich text that you’d find like bolding…

EGO Not to toot my own horn here but when I completed my coding bootcamp, I didn’t think creating my personal projects were difficult. I quickly discovered that completing the bootcamp did not inherently mean that I was a great developer. …

Hello friend. It’s been a while hasn’t it? The last couple of months have been interesting with everything that’s going on in the world. I remember starting this journey at the very beginning of the pandemic. I left my first job out of college to pursue a career that fits…

It’s been almost a year since I started blogging about my transition into software engineering and it’s been an awesome journey. I just started my third week at my new job so let’s get after my experience during week 2. So far, it has been a very humbling experience. The…

Hello friends, it’s been a while hasn’t it? While I’ve been working on myself, I hope you’ve also been working on your glow up haha! This week, I have a life update for you. I’ve left my previous role as a technical associate for my first software engineering role. Shoutout…

Okay, I’m not sure how people build projects while they have a full time job. I’m talking fullstack projects with full CRUD backend services and JWT authentication. How do you find the time after work!? What I’ve been doing is building very small components just to keep fresh on my…

It’s really no secret that getting into the tech world is a hard task. When I graduated from the coding bootcamp, I thought that I would land a job within 3 months at a great company doing fullstack web development. While that wasn’t the case, I do now have experience…