I recently acquired a website for my portfolio that was being hosted as a DigitalOcean Droplet. Droplets are like virtual machines in the DigitalOcean world. However, when transferring a website in an acquisition there are a few kinks that can trip you up when dealing with Droplets.
Components are the life-blood of React. But what is a component? According to w3schools.com, “Components are independent and reusable bits of code.” There are two main types of components, class and functional. The syntax and capabilities are different, but the most recent updates to React allow both of these types to do similar things.
While working through my final project at Flatiron, I came across redux-form. Redux-form wraps basic form inputs so that redux knows about the form values.
Working through JavaScript has been quite the experience coming from Ruby and Rails. My initial impression was reminiscent of being in France. I knew a decent amount of Spanish and I knew that there were similarities between the Romance languages, but I could not fully grasp what I was looking at or what was being said to me. Much like the concept of objects in javascript vs hashes in ruby, I knew that I’ve seen these things before, but I couldn’t exactly understand what I was seeing.
There is a lot of things Rails can do and it’s tempting to get bogged down in all of the gems and YouTube videos. As a person that is new to programming, I found this to be overwhelming for this specific project.