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Doug Schallmoser
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Mar 3, 2021

TypeScript Essentials

The TypeScript documentation is very good for learning and understanding how to use TypeScript. …

Typescript

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TypeScript Essentials
TypeScript Essentials
Typescript

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Feb 24, 2021

JavaScript Matrix Creation

I was recently working on a coding challenge of sorts in which the goal was to create a specific-sized grid and build three useable functions off of the grid. …

JavaScript

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JavaScript Matrix Creation
JavaScript Matrix Creation
JavaScript

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Feb 17, 2021

JavaScript String Cleaning

JavaScript has several built-in methods for “cleaning” strings that can be very useful for your frontend application. Since these methods are built in, they are accessible on any string as they live on the primitive String datatype (String.prototype). These methods are not unknown, but perhaps not often utilized. …

JavaScript

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JavaScript String Cleaning
JavaScript String Cleaning
JavaScript

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Feb 10, 2021

Context API + useReducer in React

Lately I have been playing around with React’s Context API and exploring its use cases. Someone recently shared a very insightful blog article with me that takes a deep dive into why Context API is not a state management tool. I recommend reading the entire article but if you are…

React

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Context API + useReducer in React
Context API + useReducer in React
React

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Feb 3, 2021

JSON Web Token Integration in Node.js

In my last article I went over how to integrate JSON Web Tokens into the backend of your Rails application. That article can be found: JSON Web Token Integration in Rails In most applications you will likely have user accounts. And if you do, you certainly want to limit what a particular…dougschallmoser.medium.com In this article I will go over a simple integration of JSON Web Tokens with Node.js, specifically with Express. The request from the frontend will…

Software Development

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JSON Web Token Integration in Node.js
JSON Web Token Integration in Node.js
Software Development

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Jan 27, 2021

JSON Web Token Integration in Rails

In most applications you will likely have user accounts. And if you do, you certainly want to limit what a particular user has access to. JSON Web Tokens is a popular method for providing user authorization across resources inside your application on the client-side. When you send a normal fetch…

React

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JSON Web Token Integration in Rails
JSON Web Token Integration in Rails
React

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Jan 20, 2021

Simple Context API Usage

In React there are many ways of sharing data throughout your application. You can pass data as a prop from a parent component to a child component. You can use a third-party library such as Redux to globally store data in a container of sorts. …

React

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Simple Context API Usage
Simple Context API Usage
React

3 min read


Jan 14, 2021

Interview Question: Rearranged Palindrome

A recent software engineer coding interview question I was given was the following: Check if a given string can be rearranged to form a palindrome. Return true or false. A palindrome is a sequence of characters that reads the same backwards as it does forwards. So the question is asking…

Algorithms

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Interview Question: Rearranged Palindrome
Interview Question: Rearranged Palindrome
Algorithms

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Jan 8, 2021

Deploy Rails ActionCable to Heroku

If you built an app utilizing Rails ActionCable and you want to deploy it to Heroku, this short walkthrough is for you. In the “Trailblaze” app I built with React/Rails, I implemented ActionCable in order to have a real-time chat feature. Getting the chat feature to work using WebSockets and…

Ruby On Rails

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Ruby On Rails

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Dec 30, 2020

Hiding Sensitive Info in React and Rails

In order to secure sensitive information such as API keys from other people’s eyes, it is imperative that you hide them from your public repository. You do not want your keys visible in any of your public commits. …

React

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React

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