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Oct 4, 2021

Lockdown (4)

Lockdown (4) Right, so as I slowly but deliberately make my way towards auth, I’m going to push on and add full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete/Destroy) functionality to my app. I can already create a new item — a bicycle in my collection- so now I need to add…

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Sep 27, 2021

Lockdown (3)

(This is the third part in a series. Last entry here ) For a quick recap, I am building a react app which I want to lockdown using Auth. Before I get to OAuth, however, I want to make sure the app has CRUD functionality. At this point, the app…

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Lockdown (3)
Lockdown (3)

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Sep 15, 2021

Lockdown! (2)

I am continuing on from my blog last week… This series will cover a rails/react app that uses OAuth for user authentication. To summarize progress up to this point: we have a rails backend seeded with four bicycles, and a show method to pull up the items on the rails…

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Lockdown! (2)
Lockdown! (2)

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Sep 13, 2021

LockDown!

For this blog, I’m going to talk about locking down a rails/react app. This will probably spill into multiple parts, but let’s get started with building a very simple rails and react app. Once it’s working, with some basic functionality, I’ll go over locking it down via Oauth. To get…

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Sep 7, 2021

Basic React Setup Part IV

Check out parts I, II, and III before following along below. In the last blog, I went over moving functions from the app.js file to separate files to improve readability. Before going much further, I want to make the app appear less, well, terrible. One of the first things I…

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Aug 30, 2021

Basic React Setup III

This blog will be a continuation of the last two weeks: Part I, Part II The whole point of today’s blog is to break out the ability of the app to add a new candy item to a new file. The App.js …

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Basic React Setup III
Basic React Setup III

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Aug 23, 2021

Basic React Setup II

***This is a continuation of my blog last week: https://benton-westergaard.medium.com/basic-react-setup-22e6e1225cd3 For this blog, I want to make the new form actually work, and ensure the new candy persists, and creates a new id for the new candy. …

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Basic React Setup II
Basic React Setup II

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Aug 15, 2021

Basic React Setup

Before continuing with my full-stack series, I wanted to take a pause to discuss/demonstrate a more intuitive way of building a basic react app that makes sense to new devs. I wish I had this when I was learning React, so hopefully it helps someone out there… For part 1…

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Aug 7, 2021

Simple Full Stack App with Rails & React IV

For part 4, I will be adding location editing functionality to full stack app described in parts 1–3 linked below. Be sure to view these links before proceeding with instructions for part 4, below:) part 1: https://benton-westergaard.medium.com/build-a-simple-fullstack-app-using-rails-and-react-460ebec3a1bc part 2: https://benton-westergaard.medium.com/simple-full-stack-app-with-rails-react-ii-bd850f53ad3e

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Aug 2, 2021

Simple Full Stack App with Rails & React III

For part 3, I will be adding more functionality to full stack app described in parts 1 and 2 linked below. If you’re following along, be sure to check these out first. part 1: https://benton-westergaard.medium.com/build-a-simple-fullstack-app-using-rails-and-react-460ebec3a1bc part 2: https://benton-westergaard.medium.com/simple-full-stack-app-with-rails-react-ii-bd850f53ad3e For part three of this series, I want to add the ability…

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Simple Full Stack App with Rails & React III
Simple Full Stack App with Rails & React III

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