Getting up and running with EF Core is easy, but it often pays dividends to understand how underlying technologies work. My aim is to provide a solid mental model of what’s going on when you actual access the database. Modeling When we first start programming, rarely do we ever start…
Arguably the most important part of Entity Framework is the DbContext. It’s basically a giant object you create with methods to get things out of a database. Another important aspect of the Application DbContext is that it configures things like the database address, tables, and event advanced relationships for the…
Being able to correctly organize and abstract code into smaller pieces is essential for all code, but especially CSS. When it comes to large, complex frontends SASS is one of the best ways to correctly structure CSS. Nothing pairs better with SASS then BEM methodology. Which stands for: A block…
React is a JS library that allows you to make web UI’s that is very similar to HTML. JSX is for more strict compared to HTML and it is dynamic. You may be asking yourself, why use JSX when we have HTML? In order to use JSX, you must do…
At a certain point in your Java career, it is inevitable to arrive at a point where you have models that are related to each other but cannot be solved with foreign keys. A good example of a many-to-many relationships is the relationship between rice and sauces. I love ALL…
State can hold any kind of JavaScript value, including objects. Although it may be tempting, you should never change objects you hold in React state directly. Instead, when you update an object, you need to create a new one and then set the state to use that copy. React Mutations…
One-to-many relationships are used when a single entity is associated with many other entities. For example, a Blog can have many associated Posts, BUT each Post is only associated with one Blog. This simply means you map child entities (Posts) as a collection in the parent object (Blogs). Spring Data…
If you program long enough, you will make the mistake of “premature optimization”. Premature optimization simply means you put the cart before the horse and made your application too complex. Redux is a framework where this happens quite frequently. The useReducer hook is a way to manage state in React….
