When you are getting started with JavaScript, you may have heard of the term hoisting before. Hoisting, to put it simply, is when variable declarations in a piece of code are brought up to the top of your code. Not literally of course, because that would actually be magic.
At the beginning of this weekend I was sent another coding challenge to prove that I can actually code as well (or better) as I claim I can. This coding challenge was for an entry level software developer position at a social media marketing platform.
I recently had a series of 4 in-person interviews for a Mobile Web Engineer position at the Dow Jones, specifically on the Wall Street Journal team. I had the luxury of tackling my technical interview first out a series of 4 consecutive (3 mostly cultural, 1 technical) interviews with the wonderful people who make the magic happen at the Wall Street Journal.
I was recently sent a code challenge to build out an app where I create a Node/Express backend with GraphQL, & an interface of my choice and have that be my API endpoint for my React frontend. This blog post will go into detail on how I approached it and what some of the struggles were in implementing them.
For my final project I decided to create an airbnb clone to showcase all of the knowledge I have made so far in the 8 months I have spent here at Flatiron.