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my name is alisha,
a software developer with a love for making aesthetically dope web and mobile apps.
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Blog

A bit of what I’ve learned along the way

September 14, 2021

My Journey to Development

Over the course of my life I've considered a few different career paths. A few others I was told I'd be good…

August 06, 2021

A few weeks ago we had a welcome meeting with the new LEARN Academy class. After we'd gone through…

June 25, 2021

This is a conversation I often have with myself whenever looking at a client codebase. Or any codebase really…

April 16, 2021

While redoing an earlier version of my website, again 😅, I decided it would be only HTML, CSS and JavaScript…

April 09, 2021

The default Material UI (MUI) theme comes with a lot of feaures right out of the box . However, I highly…

March 26, 2021

When writing a jest test, sometimes we'd like to check for a value to be present somewhere in the file tree…

March 12, 2021

When I first started learning Rails a lot of the "rails magic" threw me off because I didn't understand how…

March 05, 2021

Allowing your mobile app to maintain a positive user experience when a user sets their phone to use a larger…

February 26, 2021

What I'm calling "helper functions" are simply the functions written outside of the "render" method, that are…

February 05, 2021

Lifecycle methods are a pretty big deal in class components. There are so many because each one is called at…

January 29, 2021

A constructor in a React component is used for 1 of 2 reasons: When setting up local state When binding a…

January 22, 2021

Below is a simplified version of the React class component from part 1 of this series. Today we'll be going…

January 15, 2021

Below is a condensed example of a class component that I converted into a functional component in a React…

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