For starters, React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is not a framework, and will likely have to be combined with more libraries to form solutions. React build what is known as the User Interface, or UI, which is what the user sees when using the program…

Application Programming Interface, or API for short, is a very common and useful tool used by programmers. It allows the application to communicate with one another application. NOTE: Neither the server nor the database is the API. The API is the code that governs the access point(s) for the server…

When using React without hooks, you may find yourself passing props from function components to class components which can cause very unnecessary stress and confusion and may result in you finding long workarounds to solve the problem. React Hooks will help solve some of these problems. Using Hooks useState: one of the…

Props, short for “properties”, is used for passing data from one component to another. However, the data being passed is uni-directional, meaning it can only be passed from the parent to the child. The state of a component is an object that holds information that may change over the lifetime…

A connection between two Active Record Models is known as an association. With many types of database tables available, you’ll need to know the types of associations in order to properly navigate your database and pull the data you need when you need it. One to One One to Many …

I’ve coded a lot during my time at Flatiron School, and with a lot of coding comes a lot of errors, and with a lot of errors comes a lot of lessons. …