Use the React Context API to change the theme in an app! — But first, some context! 🤣 Ok terrible puns aside, let’s have a look at what the React Context API is for and what it does. There’s a great one-liner from the React docs… Context provides a way to pass data through the component tree without having to pass props down manually at every level. Or…

We’re going to style the basic create react app with styled-components to look something like this:

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller My time at freeCodeCamp was a fun and exciting one. …

I’m a Windows user and have been so for as long as I can remember. I have fiddled around with Linux as well but have stuck to Windows as I’ve found it to be a bit less neckbeardy for me. Both have their pros and cons. …

How to combine two separate unrelated Git repositories into one with single history timeline. Just adding a quick note on this… I had a project that started off as it’s own project but it ended up needing to go into an already existing project, so I thought ok add it…

The more you work with Git the more familiar you become with the commands used in your every day workflow for your projects or your team’s projects. Commands like naming and creating feature branches making pull requests or pushing your changes if you have the requisite permissions. So still used…

No doubt you have heard of Git or GitHub for source control, but what is source control? This is a basic overview of source code control and the advantages of using it within a team environment or using it on your…

UPDATE 20190507: This tutorial is probably not relevant anymore as Twitter depreciate parts of the API this will be less and less relevant. I won’t be updating this going forward. 🙏 UPDATE 20171105: For ease of navigation I have compiled all of this story into a GitBook it is a…

Just some rationalisation of what I’m currently doing. Recently I have decided that I’m going to improve my current skill set. To do this I’m studying with freeCodeCamp for a full stack developer certification, I’m also trying to learn as much as I can about the languages that come with…