Tests Are Tough but a Team Perseveres: Building the Open Source Product

It is Week 7 of the Software Engineering Immersive: the famed Ideation Week. We have officially...

An Overview of Systems Design & Codesmith’s Hiring Portion

Caching, load balancers, message brokers? Becoming an engineer requires more than just learning to...

Three Considerations in Using CSS Frameworks in 2021

Every website you visit uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to add styling. There are a myriad of...

Giving 'Context' to Javascript Fundamentals - How Codesmith Style Whiteboarding Guides Aspiring Engineers

As an instructor for Codesmith’s Intro to Javascript series, I had the privilege of getting to...

Building an SSR React Application with GraphQL & Deno

Unless you have been living under a rock, I am sure you have been hearing all the hype on Deno...

A Model For Parsing Data

Learning to code comes with a lot of highs and lows. We experience them, as developers, all the...

Writing Your First React Hooks

React hooks were first introduced to the world in February 2019 with the release of React 16.8, and...

Diving Into ES2019 && ES2020

Each year ECMA International releases another version of the ECMAScript standardization with...

Server-side Rendering - SSR vs. CSR, and an Intro to Next.js

Back when websites were just static web pages, server-side rendering (SSR) was the way to get your...

Passing the ACID Test: A Visual Dictionary of Database Transactions - What do Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability Actually Look Like?

The Mount Rushmore of Guaranteed Data Validity