In this two part blog I will be discussing Controlled forms in React. “Controlled form” means that the inputs from the form get their value from our React state. In this first part of this blog series I am going to show you how to set up the start of…

In my last blog we talked about building a login method and testing it in Postman. In this blog we are going to discuss how to protect your other resources and how to make it so that only a valid logged in user can create things. To start we are…

In my last blog I started to build user controllers and models. In this blog I will show you how to implement your login method so preexisting users can sign in. …

In this blog I’m going to show you how to build the beginning of an app with Auth in it. First things first, we’re going to have to make a new Rails app: Once your app is finished building and installing open your project in your text editor and we’ll…

In my last blog, I wrote about how to build the start to a basic Rails backend. In this article, I’m going to show examples of CRUD methods and how to set up a one-to-many relationship. CRUD is an acronym for Create, Read, Update, Delete. These methods are the four…

For this blog I will be covering how to make a basic node backend with Knex and Express. Node is a javascript backend framework, and one benefit of this is if your frontend is in JavaScript you’ll be doing nothing but JavaScript the whole way through your project. To start…

In this blog post I am going to be demonstrating how to build a basic backend using Ruby on Rails. …

When building web applications the most important thing to consider is user experience. If you designed a web app that allowed someone to create something and append it to the page, how joyful would the user experience be if what they created didn’t show up? …

If you read my last blog post on optimistic rendering then you know once you’ve appended something to the page optimistically it will not survive a refresh. This is because the data has not persisted. To persist your data means that you add it to your database. In my previous…