Adam Chernitsky

Apr 13, 2020

React Controlled Forms pt.2

In pt.1 of this blog I set up a frontend in React. In this blog I will be discussing setting up our backend and linking it to our frontend. Once we have accomplished that I will display the necessary adjustments you will need to make on the frontend to add…

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Apr 13, 2020

React Controlled Forms pt.1

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…

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Mar 30, 2020

Rails Auth Part 3

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…

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Mar 27, 2020

Rails Auth Part 2

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. …

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Mar 22, 2020

Rails Auth Pt. 1

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…

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Published in Level Up Coding

·Mar 15, 2020

Rails One to Many Backend with CRUD

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…

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Mar 2, 2020

Building A Basic Node Backend

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…

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Jan 29, 2020

Building a Rails Backend

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

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Jan 21, 2020

Optimistic rendering

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? …

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Jan 21, 2020

Fetch Calls and Persisting Data

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…

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