100 Days of Code - Round 4

by James Priest

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James Priest

100 Days Of Code

Log 1 Log 2 Log 3 Log 4 Log 5
100 Days Round 1 100 Days Round 2 100 Days Round 3 this log 100 Days Round 5

Challenge & Commitment

This is part of Alexander Kallaway’s 100DaysOfCode challenge. More details about the challenge can be found here: 100daysofcode.com.

Commitment: I will code daily for the next 100 days.

Start Date End Date
October 5, 2018 February 24, 2019

Goals

Code Log

100. Redux - UI + State

Day 100: February 24, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Redux
GitHub Repo: Redux Todos & Goals App

Progress: Continued Udacity Redux lesson for my React Nanodegree Program.

This lesson focused on connecting a UI to our store. It provided the following:

Here’s the subscribe code that loops through each store item and updates the DOM

store.subscribe(() => {
  const { todos, goals } = store.getState();

  document.getElementById('goals').innerHTML = '';
  document.getElementById('todos').innerHTML = '';

  todos.forEach(addTodoToDOM); // todos.forEach(todo => addTodoToDOM(todo));
  goals.forEach(addGoalToDOM); // goals.forEach(goal => addGoalToDOM(goal));
});

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React & Redux - 2. UI + Redux

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99. Redux - Dispatching Actions

Day 99: February 22, 2018 - Friday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program and Udacity Introduction to Python Programming

Redux

Progress: Continued Udacity Redux lesson for my React Nanodegree Program.

These lessons focused on dispatching actions on the the store. It also covered the following:

Here are a two reducers combined into a root reducer which is passed to the store.

const ADD_TODO = 'ADD_TODO';
const REMOVE_TODO = 'REMOVE_TODO';
const TOGGLE_TODO = 'TOGGLE_TODO';
const ADD_GOAL = 'ADD_GOAL';
const REMOVE_GOAL = 'REMOVE_GOAL';

function todos(state = [], action) {
  switch (action.type) {
    case ADD_TODO:
      return state.concat([action.todo]);
    case REMOVE_TODO:
      return state.filter(todo => todo.id !== action.id);
    case TOGGLE_TODO:
      return state.map(todo =>
        todo.id !== action.id
          ? todo
          : Object.assign({}, todo, { complete: !todo.complete })
      );
    default:
      return state;
  }
}

function goals(state = [], action) {
  switch (action.type) {
    case ADD_GOAL:
      return state.concat([action.goal]);
    case REMOVE_GOAL:
      return state.filter(goal => goal.id !== action.id);
    default:
      return state;
  }
}

function app(state = {}, action) {
  return {
    todos: todos(state.todos, action),
    goals: goals(state.goals, action)
  };
}

// Create the store passing the root reducer.
const store = createStore(app);

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React & Redux - 1.5 Dispatching an Action

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98. Redux - Updating State

Day 98: February 21, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program and Udacity Introduction to Python Programming

Redux

Progress: Continued Udacity Redux lesson for my React Nanodegree Program.

This was a long lesson that went into some depth. It covered key concepts related to Redux such as:

Here’s some sample code that takes state and an action. It decrements the count of ice cream flavor from state if the action is DELETE_FLAVOR and returns the new state.

function appReducer(state  = [], action) {
  if (action.type === 'DELETE_FLAVOR') {
    return Object.assign(
      [],
      state,
      state.map(iceCream => {
        if (iceCream.flavor === action.flavor) {
          return Object.assign({}, iceCream, {
            count: iceCream.count - 1
          });
        }
        return iceCream;
      })
    );
  }
  return state;
}

Here’s an image that illustrates this reduction process.

Redux

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React & Redux - 1.4 Updating State

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97. Redux - Create a Store

Day 97: February 20, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program and Udacity Introduction to Python Programming

Redux

Progress: Continued Udacity Redux lesson for my React Nanodegree Program.

Today’s lesson covered getting state from the store and subscribing to state change events.

This lesson also has us creating our own store from scratch in order to learn the concepts behind Redux. Here’s some of that code

function createStore() {
  // The store should have four parts
  // 1. The state
  // 2. Get the state
  // 3. Listen to changes on the state
  // 4. Update the state

  let state;
  let listeners = [];

  const getState = () => state;

  const subscribe = listener => {
    listeners.push(listener);
    return () => {
      listeners = listeners.filter(l => l !== listener);
    };
  };

  return {
    getState,
    subscribe
  };
}

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React & Redux - 1.3 Getting State & Listening for Changes

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96. Redux - The Store

Day 96: February 19, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program and Udacity Introduction to Python Programming

Redux

Progress: Continued Udacity Redux lesson for my React Nanodegree Program.

Learned some concepts behind what The Store is.

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React & Redux - 1.2 The Store

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95. Redux - Course Intro

Day 95: February 18, 2018 - Monday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program and Udacity Introduction to Python Programming

Redux

Progress: Started Udacity Redux lesson for my React Nanodegree Program.

Looks like this course is going to be split up into the following lessons:

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React & Redux - 1. Managing State Intro

I also started Intro to Python Programming and am learning the basics of the language such as:

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94. React Bookshelf Project Code Review & Fix

Day 94: February 16, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@10-code-review-enhancements on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

I got my project feedback and was given a handful of great suggestions in the code review. These include:

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 9. Feedback & Response.

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93. React Bookshelf Project Submit Project

Day 93: February 14, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@9-separate-components on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

The last step of this project was to separate each of the components into their own file. This allows for easy reuse and composition.

I submitted this project for review and now I wait to hear back.

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 8. Prep for Submission.

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92. React Bookshelf Project Sync Books & Search

Day 92: February 13, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@8-sync-books-and-search on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today was about making sure any changes that happened on the search page was carried over to the main page.

I had to refactor a few things but was able to have changes reflected in both places.

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Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@8-sync-books-and-search on CodeSandbox

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 7. Sync Books & Search.

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Day 91: February 12, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@7-add-search-ajax on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today I focused building a dynamic search. As the user types the search page dynamically displays the results.

This involved:

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 6.1 Build Search Input.

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90. React Bookshelf Project Ajax for Main Page

Day 90: February 11, 2018 - Monday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@6-add-books-ajax on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today was about making Ajax call in the appropriate places and then processing those requests.

  componentDidMount = () => {
    BooksAPI.getAll().then(books => {
      this.setState({ books: books });
    });
  };

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 5.2 Ajax to Get All Books.

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89. React Bookshelf Project Add Book State

Day 89: February 10, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@5-add-books-state on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today I began adding interactivity to my React app. This started with introducing state to track my list of books. Here are some of the things added to the code

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 5.1 Move Book to Shelf

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88. React Bookshelf Project Pass Data with Props

Day 88: February 9, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@4-add-props on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Now that the data is available inside the App, I started figuring out what to pass as props to each nested child component.

Here are a few steps I took.

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 4.3 Introduce Props

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87. React Bookshelf Project HTTP Ajax Request

Day 87: February 8, 2018 - Friday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@4-add-props on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today I pulled down the data that my app will use so I could see how best to work with it. I used Postman for this.

I was then able to look at the structure and adapt the data to be passed as props to various child components.

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 4.2 Create Static Data

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86. React Bookshelf Project Create Components

Day 86: February 7, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@3-split-components on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today I split up the code into components. This created a component hierarchy that I could then use on different pages of my app.

By the time I finished I had many more levels of nesting than I thought I would. But from what I read it’s best to have small components with minimal code for reusability rather than building large & overly complicated ones.

Here’s the hierarchy so far.

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 4.1 Split UI Components

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85. React Bookshelf Project Add Routing

Day 85: February 6, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

// App.js
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Route, Link } from 'react-router-dom';

class BooksApp extends Component {
  state = {};
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="app">
        <Route exact path="/" component={List} />
        <Route path="/search" component={Search} />
      </div>
    )
  }
}

Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@2-routing on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today I added React Router to the app and used that rather than relay on state to conditionally display UI.

This has the benefits of:

You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 3. Routing

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84. React Bookshelf Project Specifications

Day 84: February 5, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome
Live Demo: reactnd-project-myreads@1-starter-files on CodeSandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

This is the first of three projects that I have to complete successfully in order to receive my Nanodegree.

This project is book shelf app that tracks books

It should allow you to search for books, add books, and move them between shelves.

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You can read more in my notes: ReactND Project 1 - My Reads: 2. Analysis

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83. React Contact Form

Day 83: February 4, 2018 - Monday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

This lesson wrapped up the Create Contact input form and completed the operation by saving the record to the database.

This required the following to work properly.

This last part “navigates” the app to our Contact List page.

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You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 5.6 Finish Contact Form

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82. React Router

Day 82: February 3, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

This lesson got me familiar with four key components of React Router. These are:

React Router is great in that it preserves & tracks nav history and allows you to use the browser’s back button. It also provides rendering based on the Route defined.

It basically provides navigation for React Single Page Applications.

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 5.3 The BrowserRouter Component

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81. Debugging React Router

Day 81: February 2, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

So today was spent Reading React Router docs and debugging something that was right in front of me the whole time.

I was using the setState method rather than the state property in my comparison. Unfortunately, the editor didn’t flag this as an error because it thought I was doing an assignment rather than an equality check.

You can read my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 5. React Router

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80. Dynamic Render Pages

Day 80: February 1, 2018 - Friday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

This lesson introduced the concepts behind React Router and had us attempt to mimic this functionality through state.

Many things did not work including back button navigation, & proper state management.

React Router seems to solve for this by providing a framework to manage navigation of React Single Page Applications.

I also implemented a separate Create User page and added navigation buttons to the React Contacts App.

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 5. React Router

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79. Lifecycle Event Stages

Day 79: January 31, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

These last two days were spent diving deeper into the various stages that each lifecycle event occurs at.

Here’s a list of the most common events in the order in which they occur.

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 4.4 Lifecycle Event Stages

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78. React Lifecycle Events

Day 78: January 29, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Now I’ve moved onto Lifecycle Events. These are special methods that each component has which allows us to run custom behavior during certain times of the component’s lifecycle.

Some of the ones discussed were

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 4. Lifecycle Events

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77. React Chat App

Day 77: January 28, 2018 - Monday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

This is the last exercise in the State Management section of my React Fundamentals course.

It started with the basics of a chat application but it was non-functioning and all the code was static and placed in a single component.

I needed to split the app up into functional components and add code to make the app work. This was done through the use of props, state, & handler methods.

I broke the app down along the following lines.

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You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.17 Ex 2 - All Together

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76. React User Game List

Day 76: January 27, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Now I’m at the part of the course were we’re give a page of requirements and asked to build the app from scratch.

The first thing I did was draw out the UI elements. Then I drew squares around each separate functional area in order to create a component hierarchy.

Here’s what I used for the UI above.

This is what the final app looked like

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You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.16 Ex 1 - All Together

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75. React Shopping List

Day 75: January 26, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

This exercise had us take a controlled component and split it up to be modularized from one large components to four separate ones.

This took me longer than I thought it would and was trickier than I realized because I had to map out how best to break up the components.

I followed the React docs recommendation of drawing boxes around each logical component

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You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.14 Ex 2 - Controlled Components

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74. Controlled Comps Ex 1

Day 74: January 25, 2018 - Friday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

This exercise had us create a controlled component who’s value was updated by component state.

This is handled by the onChange attribute which is set to handleChange method.

class App extends Component {
  state = {
    value: ""
  };
  handleChange = e => {
    const value = e.target.value;
    this.setState({
      value
    });
  };
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <input
          type="text"
          placeholder="Say Something"
          value={this.state.value}
          onChange={this.handleChange}
        />
        {this.state.value === "" ? (
          <p>This should mirror the text you typed into the input field.</p>
        ) : (
          <p>{this.state.value}</p>
        )}
      </div>
    )
  }
}

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.13 Ex 1 - Controlled Components

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73. Controlled Components

Day 73: January 24, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today’s lesson was all about Controlled Components which are form elements who’s state is managed by React state rather than the DOM.

I learned how to

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.12 Controlled Components

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72. React PropTypes

Day 72: January 23, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Chrome

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today’s lesson introduced PropTypes. PropTypes allows you to define the datatype we expect to be passed to the component that PropTypes is defined for.

Here are some of the things you can define with PropTypes

Here’s a sample of what PropTypes defined for a ListContacts component might look like.

ListContacts.propTypes = {
  contacts: PropTypes.arrayOf(
    PropTypes.shape({
      id: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
      name: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
      handle: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
      avatarURL: PropTypes.string.isRequired
    })
  ),
  onDeleteContact: PropTypes.func.isRequired
};

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.11 PropTypes

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71. React Mental Math App

Day 71: January 22, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Code Sandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today’s lesson took me 3 days to complete properly. It consisted of building out a simple Mental Math game with props and state.

I learned about the following

I read a couple great articles by Cory House on the subject.

⚠️ Avoid arrow functions & .bind() in render() ⚠️

We generally want to avoid declaring arrow functions or binding in render() for optimal performance.

You can set up this ESLint rule (jsx-no-bind) to help alert you to this issue.

See Cory House articles on Medium:

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.10 Managing State

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70. React - Main Concepts

Day 70: January 20, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

React Docs

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today I spent the day going through React’s Main Concepts documentation. This consists of 12 sections that build upon each other and that each detail a different fundamental aspect of the React ecosystem.

This was key to my digesting so many of React’s key concepts. It serves to fill in any blank spots and gives clear direction on things like:

I love how clear the examples are and that each one links to a CodePen that you can play with.

You can read more in the official React Docs

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69. Update Component State

Day 69: January 19, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Code Sandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today’s lesson consisted of updating component state.

State can be set with setState() and can either be done by passing in a function.

// setState function
this.setState(prevState => ({ // <- implicit return of an object
  count: prevState.count + 1
}))

or it can be done by passing in an object

// setState object
this.setState({
  username: 'James'
})

Once state is updated React knows this and will call render() to re-render the component. This allows for fast, efficient updates to the app’s UI.

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.9 Updating State

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68. Adding Component State

Day 68: January 18, 2018 - Friday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Code Sandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today’s lesson consisted of adding state to a component.

Here are some take-aways.

To add state to our components, all we need to do is add a state property to our class whose value is an object. This object represents the state of our component.

We can either add it as a class field,

class User extends React.Component {
  state = {
    username: 'Tyler'
  }
}

or we can add it in the constructor

class User extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      username: 'Tyler'
    };
  }
}

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.8 Add Component State

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67. Functional Components

Day 67: January 17, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Code Sandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today’s exercises consisted of converting class components to stateless functional components.

Once again, this should be done if our component only has a render() method.

Here’s the MovieCardList component.

const MovieCardsList = props => {
  const { profiles, users, movies } = this.props;
  const usersByMovie = {}; // create empty object

  profiles.forEach(profile => {
    const movieID = profile.favoriteMovieID; // get movieID as key

    if (usersByMovie[movieID]) { // loop thru ea. profile item
      usersByMovie[movieID].push(profile.userID); // push user onto array
    } else { // else if movie key does not exit
      usersByMovie[movieID] = [profile.userID]; // assign user array to key
    }
  });

  const movieCards = Object.keys(movies).map(id => (
    <MovieCard
      key={id}
      users={users}
      usersWhoLikedMovie={usersByMovie[id]}
      movieInfo={movies[id]}
    />
  ));

  return <ul>{movieCards}</ul>;
}

Here’s the child MovieCard component.

const MovieCard = props => {
  const { users, usersWhoLikedMovie, movieInfo } = props;

  return (
    <li key={movieInfo.id}>
      <h2>{movieInfo.name}</h2>
      <h3>Liked By:</h3>

      {!usersWhoLikedMovie || usersWhoLikedMovie.length === 0 ? (
        <p>None of the current users liked this movie.</p>
      ) : (
        <ul>
          {usersWhoLikedMovie &&
            usersWhoLikedMovie.map(userId => {
              return (
                <li key={userId}>
                  <p>{users[userId].name}</p>
                </li>
              );
            })}
        </ul>
      )}
    </li>
  );
}

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.6 Functional Components

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66. Stateless Fn Components

Day 66: January 16, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

component state

Progress: Today I learned about Stateless Functional Components

The lesson focused on refactoring the list portion of the UI shown above from a class component to a functional one.

Here are a few bullet points on using functions in place of classes for components.

One key take-away from the lesson was the statement.

“If you’re using React correctly, you’re going to notice you have a lot of components that simply take in some data via props and output some UI”

You can read more in my notes: React Fundamentals - 11.1 Stateless Fn Explained

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Day 65: January 15, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Code Sandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today I worked on more React props exercises. This one required the following:

Here’s some sample code.

class PopularMovies extends Component {
  render() {
    const { profiles, users, movies } = this.props;
    const moviesArr = Object.values(movies);
    return (
      <div className="PopularMovies-container">
        {moviesArr.map(movie => (
          <div key={movie.id} className="PopularMovies-cell">
            <h3>{movie.name}</h3>
            <UserList movieID={movie.id} users={users} profiles={profiles} />
          </div>
        ))}
      </div>
    );
  }
}

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.5 Ex 2 - Passing Data

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64. React Favorite Movies

Day 64: January 14, 2018 - Monday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Code Sandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today I worked on a props exercise. It required the following:

Here’s an example of the data used.

const profiles = [
  {
    id: 1,
    userID: '1',
    favoriteMovieID: '1',
  },
  // more records...
];

const users = {
  1: {
    id: 1,
    name: 'Jane Cruz',
    userName: 'coder',
  },
  // more records...
};

const movies = {
  1: {
    id: 1,
    name: 'Planet Earth 1',
  },
  // more records...
};

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.4 Ex 1 - Passing Data

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63. Passing Data With Props

Day 63: January 13, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Code Sandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today lesson covered the following

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 3.2 Passing Data with Props

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62. Simple Composition

Day 62: January 12, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Components

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today lesson covered the following

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 2.3 Create React App

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61. CodeSandbox & React

Day 61: January 11, 2018 - Friday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

Code Sandbox

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today I used CodeSandbox to quickly spin up React dev environments for testing out various React concepts.

I LOVE this app. It is super easy to use. Includes ESLint, Prettier, great UI. Also has a beautiful editor with clean Color Themes and awesome monospace font (Dank Mono).

I used it to work on the following lesson exercises.

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 2.1 Rendering UI Intro

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60. React Higher-Order Functions

Day 60: January 10, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

jsx map

Progress: Continued my Udacity React Nanodegree Program.

Today’s lesson discussed

Then the lesson started skirting the realm of Functional Programming with concepts of currying and functional composition

I was kind of blown away by the following code sample…

const shelf1 = [{name: 'book1', shelf: 'a'},{name: 'book2', shelf: 'a'}];
const shelf2 = [{name: 'book3', shelf: 'b'},{name: 'book4', shelf: 'b'}];
const allBooks = [...shelf1, ...shelf2];

const filter = books => shelf => books.filter(b => {
  return b.shelf === shelf;
});

// currying.. produces array with 2 objects: book3 & book4
const shelf = filter(allBooks)('b'); // (2) [{...}, {...}]

console.log(shelf); // (2) [{...}, {...}]

Notice the use of double arrow functions in the filter function expression we created.

const filterBy = filter(allBooks); // partial function
const booksOnShelf = filterBy('b');

console.log(booksOnShelf) // (2) [{...}, {...}]

Here we see the use of currying and partial functions. We also see the use of double arrow functions on the same line. The Blog Post Currying and ES6 Arrow Functions does a great job of explaining this sorcery.

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 1.5 React is Just javaScript

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59. Why React

Day 59: January 9, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree Program

tyler

Progress: I started my Udacity React Nanodegree Program today.

This first lesson covered to following.

You can read more in my notes: Udacity React Fundamentals - 1. Why React

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58. Component State

Day 58: January 8, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

component state

Progress: Today I documented everything that went into creating state for a component.

This includes:

You can read more in my notes: React Fundamentals - 10. Component State

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57. React State

Day 57: January 7, 2018 - Monday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

Popular component

Progress: Today I build my first component that used State.

The previous day was spent on JavaScript’s this keyword along with .call(), .apply() and .bind() function methods.

This was a necessary precursor to understanding how to manage state and set the context of the this keyword.

The component I built was a simple clickable list that kept track of which item was clicked. This will be part of a larger UI that displays detail information based on the selected language.

You can read more here: React Fundamentals - 9. The ‘this’ keyword

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56. 4 Types of Binding ‘this’

Day 56: January 6, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

// Implicit Binding
// Left of the Dot at Call Time
var me = {
  name: 'James',
  age: 48,
  sayName: function() {
    console.log(this.name);
  }
};

me.sayName(); // James

Progress: Today I reviewed the this keyword in depth.

this is one of the most misunderstood aspects of JavaScript because it’s context changes based on how the function or method containing this is invoked.

I learned there are 4 types of binding for this keyword.

The lesson goes into depth regarding what specifically is happening in each of the cases above and gives code examples.

You can read more here: React Fundamentals - 9. The ‘this’ keyword

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55. React Composition & PropTypes

Day 55: January 5, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

component

Progress: Today I learned about the following:

Here’s an example of components written as functions.

const ProfilePic = function(props) {
  const { username } = props;
  return <img src={`#${username}`} alt="" />;
};

const ProfileLink = function(props) {
  const { username } = props;
  return <a href={`https://www.fb.com/${username}`}>{username}</a>;
};

const Avatar = function(props) {
  const { username } = props;
  return (
    <div>
      <h3>Stateless Functional Components</h3>
      <ProfilePic username={username} />
      <ProfileLink username={username} />
    </div>
  );
};
<Avatar username="james-priest" />

Here’s an example of PropTypes being defined.

Users.propTypes = {
  list: PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.string).isRequired
};

ReactDOM.render(
  <Users list={['Tyler', 'Mikenzi', 'Ryan', 'Michael', 23]} />,
  document.getElementById('app')
);

You can read more here: React Fundamentals - 8.1 Functional Composition

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54. React List map & filter

Day 54: January 4, 2018 - Friday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

vscode

Progress: Today I worked with lists using .map & .filter.

Here’s a basic mapping example that uses a parent and child component.

class FriendsContainer extends React.Component {
  render() {
    const name = 'James Priest';
    const friends = ['Evi', 'Joeylene', 'Brittany', 'Anusha', 'Divya'];
    const containerStyle = {
      border: '1px solid blue',
      padding: '10px'
    };
    return (
      <div style={containerStyle}>
        <h3>Name : {name}</h3>
        <ShowList names={friends} />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

class ShowList extends React.Component {
  render() {
    const { names } = this.props;
    const listStyle = {
      border: '1px solid red',
      padding: '10px'
    };
    return (
      <div style={listStyle}>
        <h3>Twitter Friends</h3>
        <ul>
          {names.map(friend => (
            <li key={friend}>{friend}</li>
          ))}
        </ul>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<FriendsContainer />, document.getElementById('app'));

To see more advanced examples including the use of filter you can check my notes.

You can read more here: React Fundamentals - 7.3 Lists with map & filter

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53. React Props & State

Day 53: January 3, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

vscode

Progress: Learned about props today.

Here are some specifics

Here’s a basic way of coding the component above.

const React = require('react');
const ReactDOM = require('react-dom');

class Badge extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <h1>Badge 1</h1>
        <img src={this.props.img} alt="" />
        <h2>Name: {this.props.name}</h2>
        <h3>Username: {this.props.username}</h3>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(
  <Badge
    name="James Priest"
    username="james-priest"
    img="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/27903822?s=460&v=4"
  />,
  document.getElementById('app')
);

To see more advanced examples of props using ES6 destructuring see course notes.

You can read more here: React Fundamentals - 7. Dataflow with Props

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52. React Nanodegree

Day 52: January 2, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Udacity React Nanodegree

Udacity React Nanodegree

Progress: I signed up for Udacity’s React Nanodegree program today.

I had such a good experience with the Mobile Web Specialist Nanodegree program that I figured I’d use Udacity to get my React training as well.

This is a four months program that will cover the following:

We will also be required to build a separate project using each of the three technologies in order to receive our certification and complete the program.

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51. ESLint, Airbnb, & Prettier

Day 51: December 31, 2018 - Monday

Project: Configure linting & code formatting in VS Code for React development.

vscode

Progress: I spent the last 8 days experimenting with every kind of linting and code formatting configuration I could find for React development within VSCode.

I knew I wanted the following:

I found that in the following:

So far, so good. The real craziness started with trying to determine which packages, plugins, & configurations I should be using.

In all, I tried about 20 different package combinations before getting everything to work properly.

Here are a couple things I learned.

Prettier & ESLint explained

You can read more in my notes: React Fundamentals - 6. ESLint, Airbnb, & Prettier

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50. First React Component

Day 50: December 25, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

var React = require('react');
var ReactDOM = require('react-dom');
class HelloWorld extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>Hello React!</div>
    )
  }
}
ReactDOM.render(<HelloWorld />, document.getElementById('app'));

Progress: This part of the course began deconstructing the aspects of a React component. It also contrasted that with a React element.

Learned about

first react component

You can read more in my notes: React Fundamentals - 5. First React Component

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49. React Webpack Config

Day 49: December 24, 2018 - Monday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

// In webpack.config.js
module.exports = {
  entry: './app/index.js',
  module: {
    rules: [
      { test: /\.(js)$/, use: 'babel-loader' },
      { test: /\.css$/, use: { 'style-loader', 'css-loader' }}
    ]
  },
  output: {
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
    filename: 'index_bundle.js'
  },
  plugins: [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      template: 'app/index.html'
    })
  ],
  mode: "development"
}

Progress: The next step in this course was learning how to configure Webpack.

Webpack, at its core, is a code bundler. It takes your code, transforms and bundles it, then returns a new version of your code.

I learned about

You can read more in my notes: React Fundamentals - 4. React Setup

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48. Npm Scopes

Day 48: December 23, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

npm install

Progress: Learned something new about npm!

Old way

Previously, I was installing all my babel packages without using @babel scope. This means my installs looked like this.

npm install --save-dev babel-core babel-preset-env babel-preset-react

It would then place these three related packages in the root of node_modules directory.

New way

Now I see I can install related packages to the same scoped directory provided the scoped packages exist.

The same install would look like this.

npm install --save-dev @babel/core @babel/preset-env @babel/preset-react

Here’s the directory structures

OLD DIRECTORY STRUCTURE         NEW DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
/node_modules                   / node_modules
  - babel-core                    - @babel
  - babel-preset-env                - core
  - babel-preset-react              - preset-env
                                    - preset-react

This is a lot cleaner and allows me to keep related packages together.

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47. React Fundamentals

Day 47: December 22, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Tyler McGinnis React Fundamentals course

React Ecosystem

Progress: Just started Tyler’s React Fundamentals course.

I haven’t done any coding yet but I love that he takes the time to set the stage and give some necessary context to what React is all about.

He started by explaining some of the features of React.

He then breaks down the React ecosystem and explains the following:

Lastly, he covered additional examples of imperative vs declarative code and the benefits of declarative.

See my notes React Fundamentals 1. Why React to get a better sense of the material covered including:

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46. Roman Numeral Convert

Day 46: December 21, 2018 - Friday

Project: freeCodeCamp JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification

Roman Numeral Converter

Progress: Redoing some JavaScript Algo’s

Now that I have my cert, I’m going back to see where I can refactor and update code. This was a Roman Numeral Converter that required some array manipulation.

I used .map, .split, .reverse, & .join. This one was fun bc it challenged without being too difficult.

Success message

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45. JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification

Day 45: December 19, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: freeCodeCamp JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification

Technical Documentation Page

Progress: Last project completed!

This is the second freeCodeCamp certification that I had started in 2017 but had to put on hold because of my Udacity Nanodegree scholarship.

I finished the last of the final projects today!

This cert actually represents approximately 300 hours of coursework but I still have yet to complete the exercises for each of the sections.

Now that I have the cert, I’m going back to do each of the exercises before attempting the final projects once again. This will show me anything new I’ve learned and will give me a chance to refactor and tighten up my code.

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44. Responsive Web Design Certification

Day 44: December 17, 2018 - Monday

Project: freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design Certification

Technical Documentation Page

Progress: Last project completed!

This cert represents approximately 300 hours of coursework.

I actually had done most of it in 2017 but had to put it on hold due to my Udacity Nanodegree scholarship. I’ve now just gotten back around to finishing the final requirements & assignments.

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43. Technical Documentation

Day 43: December 16, 2018 - Sunday

Project: freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design Certification

Technical Documentation Page
CodePen: Technical Documentation Page

Progress: Last project completed!

This is the fifth of five projects required for FCC’s Responsive Design Certification.

The Technical Documentation page has 13 content (HTML) & 3 layout (CSS) tests it must pass in order to be accepted. These include:

This documentation text was taken from the Vue.js website.

CodePen Technical Documentation Page

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42. Product Landing Page

Day 42: December 15, 2018 - Saturday

Project: freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design Certification

Product Landing Page
CodePen: Product Landing Page

Progress: Another project completed!

This is the fourth project out of five required necessary for FCC’s Responsive Design Certification.

The Product Landing page has 13 content (HTML) & 3 layout (CSS) tests it must pass in order to be accepted. These include:

The page is really nothing more than a skeleton framework for a product landing page. It’s still pretty rough and not fully flushed out but it serves to meet the baseline requirements.

CodePen Product Landing Page

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41. Responsive Survey Form

Day 41: December 14, 2018 - Friday

Project: freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design Certification

Survey Form
CodePen: Responsive Survey Form

Progress: Another project completed!

This is the third project I’ve completed out of five required projects necessary for FCC’s Responsive Design Certification.

So far I’ve done the following

The survey form uses the following HTML5 & CSS features.

CodePen Responsive Survey Form

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40. Restaurant App is Live

Day 40: December 11, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

Restaurant App
Live Demo: Restaurant Review App

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration is complete!

This app was my capstone project for Udacity’s Mobile Web Dev Nanodegree.

The project required that we code against various HTML5 APIs with vanilla Javascript. We were not to use the assistance of any frameworks or external libraries except for a Promise library that wrapped the IndexedDB API.

Here’s a high level list of some of the functionality this app needed to produce.

Here’s a partial list of the APIs and technologies we needed use and demonstrate.

Audit Scores

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39. Netlify Build & Deploy

Day 39: December 10, 2018 - Monday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

Form Update

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

I learned how to build and deploy a website to Netlify using Continuous Deployment.

I had to do the following

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 13. Deploy to Netlify.

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38. Update CV Resume

Day 38: December 4, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Update CV Resume

Form Update

Progress: I added to my online resume and updated some portfolio apps.

Here’s what was done:

Items Remaining:

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37. UI/UX Form Update

Day 37: December 2, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

Form Update

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

I’m still wiring up my PWA app to work with a new database back end.

Today’s work involved:

Rating display

Date display

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 12. UI/UX Updates.

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36. Edit Review Records

Day 36: November 30, 2018 - Friday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

Offline

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

I’m still wiring up my PWA app to work with a new database back end.

Today’s work involved:

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 11. Edit Review.

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35. Refactor Modal Code

Day 35: November 27, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

Offline

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

I’m still wiring up my PWA app to work with a new database back end.

Today’s work involved:

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 10. Delete Review.

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34. Add Review Form

Day 34: November 24, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

RestDB.io

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

I’m still wiring up my PWA app to work with a new database back end.

Today’s work involved:

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 9. POST Review.

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33. Favorite Button Toggle

Day 33: November 22, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

RestDB.io

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

I’m still wiring up my PWA app to work with a new database backend.

Today’s work involved:

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 8. Favorite Toggle.

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32. Streamline Database

Day 32: November 21, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

RestDB.io

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

Today’s work involved:

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 7. Streamlining Database.

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31. Edit & Delete Buttons

Day 31: November 19, 2018 - Monday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

RestDB.io

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

In order to host a copy of my version of the Mobile Web Restaurant Review app, I have to update the code to use a new series of REST endpoints.

These new endpoints are exposed by my hosted DB solution though restdb.io.

Today’s work involved:

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 6 Delete & Edit Buttons.

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30. Update REST Endpoints

Day 30: November 18, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

RestDB.io

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

In order to host a copy of my version of the Mobile Web Restaurant Review app, I have to update the code to use a new series of REST endpoints.

These new endpoints are exposed by my hosted DB solution though restdb.io.

Today’s work involved:

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 4 Get Restaurants.

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29. Swipe & Touch Support

Day 29: November 16, 2018 - Friday

Project: Google Udacity Coursework

Web Forms

Progress: Elective coursework - High Conversion Web Forms

This course teaches how to build html5 web forms that are lean, streamlined, and effective. This lesson dealt with touch events on web forms.

Lesson 4 included:

Read more: High Conversion Web Forms: Touch Support.

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28. Fast Web Forms

Day 28: November 15, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Google Udacity Coursework

Web Forms

Progress: Elective coursework - High Conversion Web Forms

This course teaches how to build html5 web forms that are lean, streamlined, and effective. This lesson dealt with streamlining existing forms.

Lesson 3 reinforced the following principles.

Read more: High Conversion Web Forms: Fast Forms.

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27. Web Forms Validation

Day 27: November 14, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Google Udacity Coursework

Web Forms

Progress: Elective coursework - High Conversion Web Forms

This course teaches how to build html5 web forms that are lean, streamlined, and effective. This lesson dealt with validation.

Lesson 2 started in with the following.

Read more: High Conversion Web Forms: Validation.

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26. Building Web Forms Pt2

Day 26: November 11, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Google Udacity Coursework

Web Forms

Progress: Elective coursework - High Conversion Web Forms

This course teaches how to build html5 web forms that are lean, streamlined, and effective. This lesson is called Efficient Inputs.

Lesson 2 started in with the following.

Read more: High Conversion Web Forms: Efficient Inputs Part 2.

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25. Building Web Forms Pt 1

Day 25: November 10, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Google Udacity Coursework

Web Forms

Progress: Elective coursework - High Conversion Web Forms

This course teaches how to build html5 web forms that are lean, streamlined, and effective.

Lesson 1 deals with

Read more: High Conversion Web Forms: Efficient Inputs Part 1.

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24. Compositing & Painting

Day 24: November 9, 2018 - Friday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

Render pipeline

Progress: Finished MWS coursework - Completed Browser Rendering Optimization course

Today I finished the last lesson of this course. It dealt with avoiding the pitfalls of compositing and painting with regards browser rendering.

It dealt with:

Read more: Browser Rendering Optimization: Compositing & Painting.

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23. Styles & Layout

Day 23: November 7, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

Render pipeline

Progress: Finishing MWS coursework - Continued Browser Rendering Optimization course

Finished the fifth lesson on Optimization & Performance which dealt with Styles and Layout with regards to the render pipeline. It covered:

Read more: Browser Rendering Optimization: Styles and Layout.

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22. JS Web Workers

Day 22: November 6, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

Time targets

Progress: Finishing MWS coursework - Continued Browser Rendering Optimization course

Finished the last part of the fourth lesson which dealt with JS memory management. It covered:

Read more: Browser Rendering Optimization: JavaScript Memory Management.

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21. JavaScript Performance

Day 21: November 5, 2018 - Monday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

Time targets

Progress: Finishing MWS coursework - Continued Browser Rendering Optimization course

The fourth lesson dealt with the JavaScript Performance Debugging in Chrome’s Debugging tools. It covered:

Read more: Browser Rendering Optimization: JavaScript Debug.

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20. Debugging Performance

Day 20: November 4, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

Time targets

Progress: Finishing MWS coursework - Continued Browser Rendering Optimization course

The third Lesson dealt with the Performance panel in Chrome’s Debugging tools. It covered:

Read more: Browser Rendering Optimization: Debugging Tools.

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19. App Lifecycle

Day 19: November 3, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

Time targets

Progress: Finishing MWS coursework - Continued Browser Rendering Optimization course

The second Lesson was called App Lifecycle and it dealt with

Idle Time

Read more: Browser Rendering Optimization: App Lifecycle.

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18. Browser Rendering Performance

Day 18: November 2, 2018 - Friday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

HTTP Protocol

Progress: Finishing MWS coursework - Started Browser Rendering Optimization course

The first Lesson is called The Critical Rendering Path and it covers the following

Read more: Browser Rendering Optimization: The Critical Rendering Path.

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17. HTTP Servers & Protocols

Day 17: November 1, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

HTTP Protocol

Progress: Finishing MWS coursework - Finished HTTP & Web Servers course

This final section of this course covered a mix of subjects including the following.

Read more: HTTP & Web Servers: Real Work HTTP: Multi-threaded Model.

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16. Deploy to Heroku

Day 16: October 31, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

HTTP Security

Progress: Finishing MWS coursework - Continued HTTP & Web Servers course

This section dealt with deploying a simple web server built with Python to Heroku. Specifically the lesson covered

Read more: HTTP & Web Servers: Real Work HTTP: Deploy to Heroku.

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15. Python Web Servers

Day 15: October 30, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

HTTP Security

Progress: Finishing MWS coursework - Continued HTTP & Web Servers course

This section dealt with creating HTTP Servers & Clients. It had us do the following:

Read more: HTTP & Web Servers: The Web from Python.

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14. Requests & Responses

Day 14: October 28, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

HTTP Security

Progress: Continuing MWS coursework - Started HTTP & Web Servers course

The first section of this course covered HTTP Requests & Responses. It had us do the following:

Read more: HTTP & Web Servers: Requests & Responses.

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13. CORS & HTTP Security

Day 13: October 27, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

HTTP Security

Progress: Continuing MWS coursework - Completed Client-Server Communications course

The last section of this course dealt with CORS and HTTP security.

Read more: Client-Server Communication: HTTP Security.

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12. HTTP/2

Day 12: October 26, 2018 - Friday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

HTTPS Course

Progress: Continuing MWS coursework - Client-Server Communications

I’m continuing with my Nanodegree coursework in preparation for the Google MWS certification test.

This lesson dealt with HTTP2.

The lesson covered..

Read more: Client-Server Communication: HTTP/2.

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11. HTTPS

Day 11: October 25, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

HTTPS Course

Progress: Continuing MWS coursework - Client-Server Communications

I’m continuing with my Nanodegree coursework in preparation for the Google MWS certification test.

This lesson dealt with Secure HTTP or HTTPS.

The lesson covered..

Read more: Client-Server Communication: HTTPS.

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10. Test REST API with Postman

Day 10: October 24, 2018 - Wednesday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

RestDB.io

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

As part of the work required to host a copy of my version of the Udacity Mobile Web Nanodegree Restaurant app, I have to change all the Ajax requests to use my new hosted DB solution.

I chose a great hosted solution made available by restdb.io.

Their service allowed me to:

The next part involved constructing all the new requests and testing each of the new endpoints to ensure I was able to perform each operation as expected.

I first started by identifying each endpoint I’m currently using from my local DB. I then read RestDB’s excellent docs on how to build equivalent requests to access the same data.

I used Postman to track, build, & test each request.

You can read more here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 3 Test REST API.

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9. RestDB.io Hosted DB

Day 9: October 23, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

RestDB.io

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

I’ve settled on a great Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering. They allow you to

This was perfect for replicating the local Node.js/Sails.js database that was provided us. And it relieves me from having to find a hosted Node.js solution.

Now I can change my Ajax calls to point to and use my new data source and be up and running.

See the code notes here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 2 Build Database.

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8. Cloud Services Defined

Day 8: October 22, 2018 - Monday

Project: Host Restaurant Review app

On-Premises, Iaas, Paas, Saas

Progress: Restaurant Review PWA migration

The nanodegree only had three stages to complete in order to meet all requirements.

I’m adding a fourth stage which will include necessary changes to properly host this app as part of my online portfolio.

I started researching various Cloud services in order to find a solution to host the Restaurant app’s back end database and REST API.

In that effort I documented the following in my code notes

See the code notes here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 4: Section 1 NoSQL with RESTful API.

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7. HTTP 1.1

Day 7: October 15, 2018 - Monday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist) Coursework

HTTP 1.1 Course

Progress: Continuing MWS coursework - Client-Server Communications

So, now that I’ve successfully completed the Nanodegree requirements I’ve set my sights on taking the Google MWS certification test. In order to be best prepared, I’ll complete the remaining coursework first.

HTTP 1.1 deals with the following..

Read more: Client-Server Communication: HTTP/1.

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6. Restaurant App - Stage 3 Project Results

Day 6: October 12, 2018 - Friday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist)

Final Project Results

Progress: Completed the Restaurant Reviews App - Stage 3 project.

I submitted my project for review and got the results back. It passed with flying colors which made the extra weeks I put into it worth while.

One thing that threw me off though was the first line of the reviewer’s feedback, “where he said, “Great attempt”. Whad’ya mean “Great attempt?!?”.😂😂

It then went on to tell me that I had in fact completed the nanodegree! Whew!😅

Responsive Design Results

See the code notes here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 3: Section 14 Stage 3 Review.

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5. Restaurant App - Stage 3 Performance Tuning

Day 5: October 11, 2018 - Thursday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist)

DevTools Audits Panel

Progress: Completed the Restaurant Reviews App - Stage 3 project.

This last part required me to tighten up the performance scores on this app.

I ran the tests from Chrome’s DevTools audits panel and did the following to bring the scores up

The new scores are enough to pass!

DevTools Audits Score

See the code notes here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 3: Section 13 Performance Tuning.

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4. Restaurant App - Stage 3 Offline Favorites

Day 4: October 9, 2018 - Tuesday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist)

Offline Favorites Toggle

Progress: Continued the Restaurant Reviews App - Stage 3 project.

I completed the last piece of functionality for this app which is the ability to mark a restaurant as a favorite while the app is offline.

I added the following:

See the code notes here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 3: Section 12 Offline Favorites.

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3. Restaurant App - Stage 3 Kill Page Refresh

Day 3: October 7, 2018 - Sunday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist)

Data Displays without Refresh

Progress: Continued the Restaurant Reviews App - Stage 3 project.

There were two places in my app where I was lazily reloading the page in order to redraw the data on the page.

This was clunky and didn’t make sense to do since I was using Ajax everywhere else to eliminate round-trips to the server.

See the code notes here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 3: Section 11 Kill Page Refresh.

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2. Restaurant App - Stage 3 Post Offline Data

Day 2: October 6, 2018 - Saturday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist)

Save Offline Data

Progress: Continued the Restaurant Reviews App - Stage 3 project.

In this part of my project I finished the offline data processing queue. This is responsible for sending offline review data to the server once connectivity is re-established.

The code does the following:

  1. On page load it gets the all offline requests as an IDB cursor
  2. It opens the first request and attempts to POST it with fetch
  3. If we are offline then it skips to the next and tries again
  4. Once we do successfully POST we get the resulting record back
  5. We then delete the offline request from the offline store
  6. We add the new review record and delete the old record from reviews store
  7. The add & delete is done in the same transaction so if it fails it rolls back

See the code notes here: Restaurant Review App - Stage 3: Section 10 Post Offline Data.

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1. Created Round 4 Code Log

Day 1: October 5, 2018 - Friday

Project: Google Udacity Nanodegree (Mobile Web Specialist)

new code log

Progress: Created a new GitHub repo for my Round 4 code log.

This now uses a dusky rose theme and has an updated nav which I’ve migrated over to my previous two logs.

I’m still finishing up my Udacity Mobile Web Specialist Nanodegree…

Hopefully will be done in another week…

Links: My GitHub repo https://github.com/james-priest/100-days-of-code-log-r4