JavaScript Arrays have a few methods that are Higher Order Functions. A higher order function is one that accepts another function as an argument. Today, we are going to take a look at a few of the popular ones, which are: .map(), .filter(), and .sort().
I decided to do my React-Redux project on an application called Neddit. With so many news articles being posted daily, I wanted to have a place where people could save relevant and “Neddit-worthy” articles to read. When you click on the “Neddit Button, it automatically saves the article associated to the category it belongs to, so visitors can search through new articles, or visit the Post page, and view the articles that others have already deemed Neddit worthy. Visitors can also view the show page for each article that has been saved and leave a comment! I used news-api to pull news articles and created my own API to save the new categories, posts, and comments into the database. Doing so, I was able to grab the newest articles from the news-api in JSON format and use that data to place all of the articles onto my page.
You are a captain of a ship, sailing the seven seas with your crew. The first thing the crew does before you set sail, is hoist the good ole’ Jolly Roger to the top of the flag pole. This is a job for your crew, since you are too busy counting your Dubloons, and fortunately, they do it automatically, and you do not need to tell them to do so. There are also many variables around you while you sail through the JavaScript ocean, at the global scope, functional scope, and block scope. I want to have you prepared and understand how your crew works, and understand variables at a deeper level before you have your crew hoist the good ole’ Jolly Roger.
In my latest project I upgraded my Opportunity-Finder Application by adding a jQuery front end to make my application run smoother, and allow Opportunity Providers the convience of seeing information on who applied to their opportunities without refreshing the page, and allowing them to post opportunities without having to do a page refresh. It made the website run a lot smoother.
I decided to do my rails portfolio project on an application where you can post and find job opportunities. The inspiration of this project came from an idea of a future personal project that I will work on in the future. This project serves as a prototype of how I will build it and to see what it takes to create a job searching website.