SavagePixie articles - 26 total
Best practices to authenticate with Passport.js
I would like to ask the community for help to better understand and use Passport.js. The way I learn...
Mutability and reassignability in JavaScript
When you started learning JavaScript and were introduced to variable declaration, you might have read...
Asteroid App: Project Submission
What I built For the Twilio Hackathon, I have built an automated WhatsApp account to which...
Asteroid App: Phase Three
For the Twilio Hackathon, I'm doing an automated WhatsApp account to which you can ask information ab...
Asteroid App: Phase Two
For the Twilio Hackathon, I'm doing an automated WhatsApp account to which you can ask information ab...
Asteroid App: Phase One
For the Twilio Hackathon, I'm doing an automated WhatsApp account to which you can ask information ab...
What's the closest asteroid to Earth?
I thought that for the Twilio Hackathon it might be fun to do something that integrates a couple of A...
Recursive approach to map and reduce: A thought experiment
In my early stages of learning Elixir, I had to write a recursive implementation of the functions map...
Good resources to learn Kotlin for Android?
In my dealings with React Native, I have found certain plugins disappointing, so I am considering wri...
What language are you planning to learn next?
A lot of people who code seriously (whether as a job or as a hobby), end up hearing about other progr...
Cool Object methods in JavaScript
This is a compilation of a few Object methods that may come in handy. Object.assign Object.entries...
Promise flow: An in-depth look at then and catch
Promises are one way in which you can handle asynchronous operations in JavaScript. Today we are goin...
How do you test your side projects?
I've been working on an android app using React Native for the past couple of weeks as a side project...
An introduction to promises in JavaScript
Promises allow us to perform asynchronous operations. A Promise is a proxy, a placeholder if you will...
React Native: Setting up the environment on Linux Mint
Getting to writing React Native and testing it on your phone can be really quick if you go the expo-c...
How to make HTTP requests with Node
If your experience is any similar to mine, the first time you had to fetch data from a JSON API on yo...
How to mimic componentDidUpdate() with React Hooks
useEffect is a very useful hook. It receives a callback function that executes when the component has...
Fetching data with React Hooks
React Hooks are a relatively new feature of React that allows us to keep the state of our app in a fu...
What features do you like about JavaScript?
What things about JavaScript do you like? What features do you enjoy using? They don't need to be exc...
Understanding reduce in JavaScript
When I first started learning JavaScript, I had some trouble grasping reduce(). I have heard of other...
Wielding replace with all its power
Regular expressions can be a great help when we need to analyse or transform user input or other stri...
Why do you like or dislike React?
I have recently been learning about React, which, as you probably know is a JavaScript library. As fa...
Lookaheads in Javascript
Today I faced a very interesting exercise. I had to make a function that took a string as its argumen...
Butchering Arrays (or not) with splice() and slice()
Today I've been delving into different ways to add to, subtract from and in general modify arrays. Th...
Destructuring Assignment in JavaScript
One of the things that give me headache about JavaScript ES6 is the amount of expressions that use sy...
My New Friends filter() and map()
Today I have been learning about arrow functions. I've got to say that at first it's hard to wrap my...