At the start of June 2024, the UEFA Euros 2024 began. And one of my favourite things to do is enter a sweepstake. For the last few tournaments, amongst family and friends I have organised a small-scale sweepstake for fun. I’ve never won… When this tournament came around, I realised it is a perfect opportunity for a beginner ReactJS / frontend project. And so, my first frontend portfolio project was born - the Sweepstaker....
So if you’ve read my post about learning web development, you will be aware that my current hobby is learning full stack web development. I’ve completed a number of tutorial videos, and now I’m trying to put together a mini Strava/Running dashboard. Here’s a quick screen recording of what I’ve achieved after 1.5 months of learning the “PERN” stack. I know it’s not great, but I’m super happy having managed to hook frontend and backend together and render a cool chart!...
What is this page? I am going to treat this like an evergreen page where I document my progress as and when it happens. This is to serve 3 purposes: To help myself structure my learning To show others one person’s learning journey Full context here is that I’m learning web development as a hobby. I have a full time job (not in web development) and a lovely wife so my available time can vary between having no time/energy some weeks, to having a good amount....