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API Testing with Mocha
It took some time for me to understand how to set up tests for an API using Mocha. Finding API testing documentation about Mocha and an ORM framework working together to test APIs was a challenge. So, I want to detail what I learned setting up these tests. API An Application Programming Interface is an […]
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Layered Architecture for NodeJs
Something that was not intuitive to me when I was getting into this software development world was how to build the software’s architecture. I did not learn alone how to optimally organize the functions and components I knew how to write. Some time ago, I had to refactor the NodeJS codebase into layered architecture. I […]
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A Morning in a Front End Developer’s Mac Terminal
Plays Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro song: 🎵Now, this is a story all about how this Front End Developer turns her terminal upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, sit right there. I’ll tell you how I use the Mac terminal throughout the day to be clear. 🎵 A Slack message popped up. […]
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Filtering with GraphQL and Prisma: What NOT to Do
Filtering with GraphQL and Prisma was a big learning experience so I want to focus this article on GraphQL and Prisma. But first, let me walk you through the stack I have been working with in the past months. I have been working with React, Apollo, GraphQL, and Prisma. Learning these four layers of programming […]
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HTML: Tag Nesting
Hello, Fellow Readers! 👋 In the article HTML for Beginners (Spanish version here), we learned that the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a language for web documents. Also, HTML has a tag structure that denotes elements on the web document, and we even saw how HTML tags look on the browser. In the article HTML: Tag […]
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What the Heck I Did During My First Year of Writing Code?
Helloooooo !!! I turned one year of writing code full time sometime in the 31 days of August that just recently ended. Honestly, I cannot believe how fast time has gone by. I remember reading different articles from programmers about their first years of writing code, and be thinking: “When I turn my first year […]
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HTML Tag Attributes
Tag attributes in programming languages behave similarly to adjectives and adverbs in the English language. English uses adjectives and adverbs to describe subjects and verbs, respectively. Tag attributes provide additional information on how the element behaves or its configuration. There are two types of tag attributes: Global Attributes and Element-Specific Attributes. Even though their names […]
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HTML for Beginners
Have you ever pressed some keyboard combination that suddenly opens a new window on your web browser similar to the following?: Even though you have not seen this window in your life, this window is one of the essential tools for web development. It is really important that you familiarize yourself with it. This window […]
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How to Practice Problem Solving for Web Development without Writing Code
If you are deciding that making a career change into web development is your next move, you have probably researched the soft skills that you will need. Doing a quick Google search on soft skills for programming you will find problem-solving as one of the skills often listed. If problem-solving is a skill that reminds […]
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Programming Language: The General Parts
Programmers are writers for computers using a programming language. They write lists of instructions. Computers read and follow the lists but they do not rationalize the given instructions. Computers just follow instructions without question. A computer understands Binary Code which consists of only 0’s and 1’s. That is the only thing that the computer reads. […]
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