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Aug 17, 202313 min read44 views

Day 3 Overview: Testing Practices + Integration Tests

Testing Practices Unit Tests for Express Middleware Let’s look at an example: import {initDb, generate} from 'til-server-test-utils' import * as postsController from '../posts' import db from '../../utils/db' // I'll give this one to you. You want ...

Day 2 Overview: The DOM
Course Project Overview: What will I be building? App: Coffee Masters Web app for a coffee shop Menu of products Details of each product Order with Cart Data in JSON No JavaScript written To start, I always thought that the DOM and the HTML f...
Jul 28, 20239 min read33 views
Day 1 Overview: VanillaJS
Why am I taking this course? Though I've been coding for about 3 years now since I finished my boot camp at the tail end of 2020, and have used React extensively during my stops at LeanIX and Twilio, I found that I still had gaps in my mental model o...
Jul 28, 20237 min read66 views
How I built an API microservice that could handle up to 500-1,000RPS with minimal latency
💡 If you're interested in interacting with my API through Swagger UI, you can find the live link to the deployed service here. 💡 If you'd like to check out my code, feel free to check out my GitHub repo! 💡 If you want to read an exhaustive b...
Jul 13, 202313 min read312 views