Tutorials

Index summary and links to tutorials and guides written by Howie Mann

JavaScript and Frontend Frameworks

• Functional JavaScript:

  • An introduction to functional programming in JavaScript

• React:

  • How to build a simple Comment box with live loading using React Components

• Backbone.js

  • How to build a simple Comment box with localstorage using Backbone.js

Node.js and Backend Frameworks

• Unit testing patterns in JavaScript:

  • Overview of common unit testing patterns when writing JavaScript

• Part 1: Intro to Node.js and Express.js:

  • Intro to node and setting up a boilerplate express web app with dynamic view templates

• Part 2: Node authentication bcrypt and passport.js:

  • How to build Node user and password authentication and authorizations with passport.js and bcrypt
  • Also includes how to set up a Docker and MySQL database and bonus OAUTH login with github

• Part 3: Node database migrations with knex:

  • Automating our SQL database with migrations and seed files using knex

• Deployment: Heroku:

  • Deploying Node app to Heroku with MySQL database and Redis memory store

Ruby and Ruby on Rails

• Rails shopping cart:

  • How to build a simple grocery shopping cart and checkout on Rails

• Nokogiri webscraping:

  • How to use Nokogiri Ruby gem to scrape website information and render on Rails

• Rails authentication bcrypt:

  • How to build Rails user and password authentication from scratch with bcrypt Ruby gem

• Regular Expressions:

  • Commonly used regular expressions and Ruby methods

• Rails 5 API only:

  • Building an API-only application using Rails 5

SQL

• Raw SQL:
  • Common SQL queries, table creations, relations, joins