Forem: Chad Collins

ReactJS Live Code Conversations

Chad Collins — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 05:27:09 +0000

Hey everyone, we had a fun time with our series "Live Code Conversations" on ReactJS Live, our Youtube channel where we do live coding and talk code.

In this video, we look at conversion of jquery code to react, and discuss ArtificialGalaxies.com project.

Watch the live created video here on our Youtube ReactJSLive Channel.
Dont forget to smash that like button and subscribe!

And, you can also join our ReactJS Live groups here at these links:

Facebook
https://facebook.com/groups/ReactJSLive

Discord Invite:
https://TinyURL.com/DiscordTech

Thanks for checking out the video! Be sure to follow the series Mario and I put on, we have a lot of fun, and seeing Mario learn web development and react "live" is fun, and there are lots of bad jokes to keep the coding session fun!

Cheers!

How to Make a React Website

Chad Collins — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 21:54:48 +0000

Hey everyone, we had a member from our ReactJS Live groups on discord ask for a basic example on how to create a react site.

In this video, we actually google "Building Your First React Website" and it brought us to a really great starter article, where we followed the directions.

That post is here -> Much appreciation with full attribution! :)
https://dev.to/nexttech/building-your-first-react-website-c5c

Watch the live created video here on our Youtube ReactJSLive Channel.
Dont forget to smash that like button and subscribe!

And, you can also join our ReactJS Live groups here at these links:

Facebook
https://facebook.com/groups/ReactJSLive

Discord Invite:
https://TinyURL.com/DiscordTech

Thanks for checking out the video, and there will be a follow up video soon making the entire site with navigation, footer, and content!

Cheers!

Explain Explain to Me

Chad Collins — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:18:01 +0000

Continuing off the React, Vue and Angular posts made by Ben from Dev.to I was impressed to see the SEO rankings go straight to number one on google.

So Explain => Explain to me "post was born" to test this formula against engine rankings.

Also this was made for fun, to see the power of Dev.to's weight on the engines, and the "recursion" one could find so easily with title phrases about a topic like this.

https://dev.to/ben/explain-react-to-me-2jji
https://dev.to/ben/explain-vue-to-me-3moj
https://dev.to/ben/explain-angular-to-me-j5m

Happy coding <3

Since youre here, and my fun post hasnt been flagged for poor grammar or bad humor, consider subscribing to my youtube channel because Im only 5 subs away from 100 sub fame! Im not above grovelling or mispells to get your attention. -

Make my day by subbing here => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWJcJ9UFzjk

Thanks - Chad

Checking out NEXT.JS for Server Side Rendering

Chad Collins — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 00:35:28 +0000

Ive got a private REACT.JS group with 2500 awesome folks in it! We moderate against all spam or off topic things, and its a great place to just open up and ask for help, talk about trends, and lately I have been going live in the channel promoting our new YOUTUBE LIVE REACTJS! Channel which is here:

https://TinyURL.com/LearnReactJS

and if interested, our Facebook group is here:
https://facebook.com/groups/LearnReactJS

Ok with the shameless (but necessary) plugs out of the way, here is a link on Youtube (my personal channel for now) while we setup our REACTJS channel, that shows my quick dive into setting up NEXT.JS

I dont claim to be a REACTJS genius, but I will claim to be a great googler and instruction follower who is fiercely persistent at solving things.

Here is the Live video first recorded on facebook (sorry for low quality)
https://youtu.be/LzhXZZrSFwE

and here is the repo of the modified quick start app.
https://github.com/ratherbsurfing/next-js-my-app

Warm regards, and this document will likely be updated to be awesome, for now its a link treasure trove of my journey with REACT.

Chad

Building our Live Code Conversations ReactJS Live Youtube Channel

Chad Collins — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:22:27 +0000

--React.JS Youtube Channel has soft launched!

YouTube:

Personally and professionally, I have been building groups on facebook for about a year now. And I have been lucky plus blessed to have grown a few groups that are sizeable enough communities to have real engagement and learn so many different things as well as contribute to mentoring those learning React.JS, Javascript, Node.js, Vue.js and Javascript.

This article is a moving target and documentary of that experience which is unfolding on our group here at https://facebook.com/groups/LearnReactJS and on our new channel which has gotten about 65 subscribers in just 24 hours. We are actively begging.. ahem.. asking every new member in our groups to subscribe at our new youtube channel over here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIscClModS1CRGhlUTocCGg

Update to the journey, yesterday I paused to help build a fence for one of our dog rescues at our home and now we have met our 100 member goal for the channel!

Is this a shameless post asking you to join and become part of our Live Youtube Channel about REACT? Yes, yes it is.

So if you like javascript and are beginner, intermediate or expert React, I want to interview you on our channel.

Message me, or join our group at https://facebook.com/groups/LearnReactJS
and subscribe, for the love of all, just subscribe, Ill be in your debt. You can do that here => https://TinyURL.com/LearnReactJS (soon in about 27 days we will have our vanity url) for now, its TinyURL links..

Ok darnit, that is no way to end an amazing post about our channel. With the warmest regards, thank you in advance.

-Chad
www.ChadCollins.com

25 Years Building the Web

Chad Collins — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:51:18 +0000

In my career, I have done everything. When I say I have done everything, I mean e-ver-a-thing... To run down the experience, Ive started my own companies out of my beach house that grew from service software companies to full blown electronic lenders. At times in my career, I have 100 percent automated web browsers reducing human capital costs for operation, improving value, and ultimately profit. I have been a teacher for colleges that required degrees, but I do not possess a degree. I have had so many successes, coupled with challenges that come with business that I can always answer any question about my career with some story. I have been the first hire on a team that grew to 60 of a 500 person company focused on a next gen project to see the company then be bought for 600 million. I have spoken on stage in front of thousands of people. I have been a startup founder my entire career. I have discussed every possible business you could imagine. I have worked and become a vendor for our nations largest broker lenders. In fact, I have even built a lender company that partnered with banks and grew our revenue using automation and sales over and over. So many trials, tribulations and learning lessons. I have read books, made goals and believed in the future. Think and Grow Rich, E-myth, Thick Face Black Heart, 48 Laws of Power, so many others. So why this pre-amble? Why is it important that starting as a mere graphic designer I had become a web architect, even an ISP founder that eventually sold its business to Godaddy. Why share this? I mean in the state of the web today, I see patterns. I see reinvention, new holy grails, new paradigms that are repeats. I am one of the very few developers and entrepreneurs you will meet that have systems they created over 10 years ago that still run and are appreciated to this day. Both without any maintenance? I mean I know, this is dev.to, very smart people will immediately deny my story, they will say software is imperfect, and that you could never do that. Well in their journey they are correct, but in mine they are not. I used RAD (rapid application development) techniques. And not until you employ those tequniques and experience them, not just know about them, you might see what I saw. And what did I see? Maturation. The maturation of systems and depths and breadth they can reach when you follow smart patterns. Many teams talk about "technical debt". And whenever I have heard a team use those words in their meetings, I have always seen a near failing project of epic proportions. The problem in some ways is people are to smart. People being developers and their business managers. They get some things right, but as you know they always chase the latest and greatest. They chase the shiny new things as some new savior, some new rescue-er of the old verses the new. But the problem with the new, is always the same, its not complete, its not mature. So the state of the web is no different than the state of the web 5 years ago, 10 years ago and more. And of course there are devs and super scientists out there that will start arguing their points, because they have to believe, they have to drink their own punch. I understand. So if you get anything from this article, you must understand that Code Generation is the key to making long standing mature applications. Not coding everything "from scratch". Not being able to parrot super details of a deep new upgrade to a particular language. Everyone in the web industry is over-building for performance, yet, they cant even get their enterprise apps to build from end to end, or worse their configuration management has exceeded the ability to evolve the app. People leave the team, original architects go, and your system in that case stunts. So what can you glean from this article I ask again? Nothing but enlightenment. Someone who has done it for a long time telling the truth. So yes, you must work on the latest and greatest or risk not having employment. But if you work for yourself, you know you would choose different paradigms over the ones chosen in the enterprise. So let me close by saying. Keepp doing what you are doing, but stop believing every new anti pattern that comes out. Stop believing that some new evolution of another framework or language will somehow save this chase for a streamlined build or development process. Keep it simple, keep it manageable. Know when it is good enough. Do not be afraid to speak up. Stop letting companies throw away millions on projects that dont end up meeting expectations. Keep coding and tell me your experiences!