Sean Groff

My Decade Story - First as a Developer

My Decade - The Mountain I was going to tweet about my decade but I quickly realized I had a lot to share. I wrote this for myself as I don…

Unix Permissions Demystified

Permission Denied Permission Denied! If you've used any Unix-Like Operating System you've no doubt seen these two words in the terminal. A…

My AWS Cloud Journey as a Front-end Developer

The Journey Why the hell did I take an AWS certification exam as primarily a front-end developer? Learning cloud services is a NECESSARY…

The Approachable Guide to useReducer

Introduction The useReducer hook provides a flexible solution to complex state. The useState hook we all know and love is actually built…

Get Started with React Native Animations

What are Animations in React Native? Animation can be defined as manipulating images or objects to appear as moving images or objects…

Introduction to Refs in React 16.3

What are Refs? Refs? Refs in React 16.3? If you're still a little green with React it's not unusual to have never heard of refs. I completed…

Configure TypeScript, TSLint, and Prettier in VS Code for React Native Development

Introduction This short guide will provide you a consistent and reusable development workflow for new or existing React Native projects…

2 Minutes to Learn React 16's componentDidCatch Lifecycle Method

What are Error Boundaries? "Error boundaries are React components that catch JavaScript errors anywhere in their child component tree, log…

Configure ESLint, Prettier, and Flow in VS Code for React Development

Intro This short guide will provide you a consistent and reusable development workflow for all React / React Native projects. The more…

How I learned React and how you can too

React What is this React you speak of? If you're reading this article I assume you've heard of React and have a basic understanding of what…