In my last blog post I talked about using Express for routing in my Node.js applications. The other tool I use regularly when working with Node.js applications is Sequelize.
When starting with Flatiron School, RESTful routing was new to me. It was something I had heard mentioned several times, but I had never learned what it was. Learning with Rails was great and I loved learning it because it made the Internet as a whole make much more sense to me.
This blog post is going to be a short and sweet appreciation post for Postman. I have been doing a fair amount of backend projects lately to work on routes, manipulating data, and just general API building. While working on these projects the one tool that I have found the most invaluable is Postman.
Last week, when I was working on a project with a friend, we came to a spot where we needed to iterate over an array of objects. I immediately reached for .map() because that seems to be what I always do, but my friend stopped me and asked why I was not using .filter() in this scenario. The honest truth: I forgot .filter() even existed.
One thing that I have started doing now, that has been very helpful in all of my coding projects, is writing my tests first.