Part 3 — In the final part of my Authentication in Node series I’m going to add three last pieces of functionality to my backend Node server. First will be what I’m calling a ‘grab user’ function, which essential will run every time the frontend gets reloaded, refreshed or redirected to take the…

Adding Validation (Part 2) — This is a continuation on the piece I wrote about adding Authentication into a Node project using HTTP cookies, BCrypt and JWT tokens. Previously, I had set up my application to accept an incoming request where a user was signing up. I then took that info, hashed the password, saved…

Part 1 — So, you’ve decided to finally broach the topic of authentication within your Node application. Come to find out there are of course a ton of ways to implement Auth within Node, so where do you start? First choice is to decide whether you want to just let a third party…

In my never ending journey of refactoring and refining my code my most recent endeavor has been in writing cleaner and easier to read code with the help of async-await Up until recently I had only used JavaScript & Promises primarily within the context of writing React code. As far…

In my last post I did a short walk through of refactoring existing Redux code to utilize the Redux Toolkit and React-Redux Hooks. That article can be found (here) and seeing as I will be adding on to the demo started there it may be a good place to start…

During this year’s Reactathon one of the coolest presentation I had to chance to catch was with Mark Erickson. He was there to present some modern Redux techniques and specifically the React Toolkit and the use of the ever popular *hooks*. It inspired me to go back and refactor some…

When learning about React for the first time one of the very first decisions you’re faced with is which way to write your components. React gives you two different variants for this choice: Class Components & Functional components. Initially when I was trying to wrap my head around this and…

Upon my own personal journey to learn and become familiar with JavaScript I’ve found probably the Most helpful tool in refining my code is without a doubt Google Chrome’s DevTools. Anyone who has “inspected” a webpage probably has some understanding of how truly powerful the DevTools are. They include…

Since Rails 5.1 theres a new form in town and it goes by the name of ‘form_with’. The Predecessors: <form_for> & <form_tag> Those familiar with Ruby on Rails know that the two main Form Helpers that Rails provides out of the box are <form_tag> and <form_for>. …