Plant blog
This is a full stack app. It uses MongoDB cloud for the database, NodeJS and Express for the backend, and React for the front end. -WIP-: refactoring to include Next.js and Auth0.
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Web development
React, TypeScript and Redux on the front end, Node and Express with MongoDB behind it, and Astro for this site. I try not to depend on any one framework, so several of these projects deliberately reinvent the wheel in plain JavaScript first.
The order below is roughly the order I built them, which doubles as a record of what I was learning at the time.
Projects in this area
Life Game in React
My first introduction to React was to remake an old program made in Python.
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Matrix Calculator
Perform matrix operations.
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Number Converter
The first applet I made. Change from one number format to another. This was a fun way to learn about JavaScript event listeners and DOM manipulation. 2025 update: set up a CI pipeline, added tests and coverage with Cypress.
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To Do App
Simple to do app in vanilla JS.
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Timer with intervals
A configurable interval timer for training. Runs in the browser, remembers your settings and needs no connection once the page has loaded.
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