Today we’ll discuss the process of making a POST request in React JS and persisting data to a Sinatra backend. Let’s get started! First we’ll start with our server side, create a Movie model and within our models folder. Next we’ll need to create a migration called CreateMovies, which will…

For my final project at Flatiron school I decided to create a basic dating application similar to Tinder or Hinge. I wanted the app’s location feature to operate in a similar way to Tinder’s location feature. After scouring the internet for ways to accomplish this, I discovered that using MDN’s…

After spending a lot of time Google searching how to use FullCalendar with your own Rails backend, I couldn’t find anything that explained exactly how to post events to my Rails API, and display them on my app’s calendar. …

Being able to share direct links to webpages is extremely useful when navigating the internet. Say for example, you want to share a YouTube video with a friend, it would seem like overkill to tell your friend, “Hey, go to https://www.youtube.com, type in the search bar ‘Eminem slim shady’ and…

Today I’ll be talking about how to 1) create a like button, 2) count the number of likes, and 3) appending the button and results to the DOM. Say for instance we want to build an app that displays a random activity from an API. First we call fetch, passing…

In JavaScript, destructuring assignment is extremely useful. It allows us to pull information from Objects and Arrays with ease, and with less typing overall. A standard way of pulling values from an object and storing them into variables (without destructuring) is to access the properties via the dot operator: const…