After a successful call with a recruiter the next step typically is a technical interview. Technical interviews are an opportunity to show off how you code and think. I have frozen up in a lot during these. I am not a fan of toy problems, but it is a necessary evil in the interviewing process.… Read More »
Storybook is a great UI testing tool and is simple to install in your react project. To install enter the following. Now check that is running by typing Storybook will compile and present a page like the following. If not navigate to ‘http://localhost:6006/’. The storybook example also installs some react components that you can play… Read More »
Why use typescript with react? If you like strongly typed languages you will welcome using typescript in your react projects. This simple project will show you how to create a simple react app with a typescript template already installed. To create a react project with typescript it is pretty simple to do. All you need… Read More »
Code ownership is a debated subject with two opposing trains of thought. Single person ownership or team ownership. I believe a hybrid of the two is the best choice. Open source In an open source project a person or a small group owns the code. Many people can contribute to the project by doing their… Read More »
Running terraform locally is great for local development but the real power of Terraform is when you provision your code on the cloud. This post will discuss how we can do that. First you will need a AWS account, click on this link for information on the free tier account. Next you need to install… Read More »
Imagine if you could write code that would set up your infrastructure on any cloud system and would not have change if you switch providers. This is the concept of infrastructure as code. Terraform is one of the most popular tools to do this and will be the subject of this post. Let’s get started… Read More »
Do you ever find yourself watching silly videos on youtube to relieve your stress. These helped me during my full stack journey, enjoy! I picked out a few of my favorites. The following 11-8 videos are copyrighted by Jürgen Henn – 11foot8.com you can see more as his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXX0RWOIBjt4o3ziHu-6a5A This camper runs a… Read More »
Compose is a tool for defining and running multiple containers at once. For example if you want to create a wordpress website with a MySql database you can do this very easily with compose. Previously we learned that we could use docker files to define containers. With compose you use compose-yaml files to define your… Read More »
MySql Database Volumes When we create sql server we want to specify the volume using -v [volumeName]:[location]. If we don’t it will create a name on its own with GUID like c6d2e97041fcabf441ad0073809536979e3edde2373072533cec548b70002f95 which is very hard to use. let’s look at volume. Notice it has a volume mount point. This mount point is separate from… Read More »
Up to this point we have created containers using images pulled down from the internet. Then made changes to those containers. As long we didn’t delete the containers the changes persisted. We can also save the container permanently to images. To demonstrate this let’s create a container using docker run –name myWeb1 -p 8080:80 -it… Read More »