Blogging

I was able to figure out to render data from a API call to the DOM. I feel pretty good about it, I’m starting to understand it a bit more. Progress feels good.

I didn’t get much coding done today, my mind was unfocus and somewhere else. I am having issues implementing rendering data fetched from an API call. I am hung up on doing it correctly, I think my next approach will just to implement poorly and see what happens. Issue Do I just I just create a generic fetch function then input the endpoint into that function or do I hard code the endpoints into each function?

I’ve decided to try and restart my journey to become a web developer. After 7 years in the IT industry I want to try a different thing. I studied computer science in college, but changed majors 2 years before completing the program. I ended up graduating college with a degree in something completely unrelated. Its been a difficult journey trying to learn how to get out of “tutorial hell” and put things I’ve relearned back into practice.

Welcome to my new blog about learning Astro! Here, I will share my learning journey as I build a new website. What I’ve accomplished Installing Astro: First, I created a new Astro project and set up my online accounts. Making Pages: I then learned how to make pages by creating new .astro files and placing them in the src/pages/ folder. Making Blog Posts: This is my first blog post! I now have Astro pages and Markdown posts!

As I am exploring other javascript frameworks, I am providing myself 1-2 weeks learning angular. It seems really nice when generating components through the Angular CLI while comparing to React. I will continue to work on my pokemon API with using vanilla javascript and fetch();. I also have a layout in mind for a showcase portfolio. I just don’t know what framework to use or even if need a framework.