• Aug 7, 2019

  • Fantastic guide to forms in react:
  • https://medium.com/@agoiabeladeyemi/the-complete-guide-to-forms-in-react-d2ba93f32825.
  • Remember, react doesn’t have native form handlers like angular.
  • You have uncontrolled input (regular <input> fields in html) and then controlled input fields, where you bind that to the state and keep it up to date with the backend db usually (like the blog post body field in my app).
  • Checked in to hawaii flight. Annoying to have to pay to check a bag ($30). There’s gonna be traffic on the way to a 9am flight, and LAX is under construction, so I’m gonna take the bike.
  • To rename a variable during an es6 obj deconstruction, do `const { key: newName } = obj`
  • Added password protection to form submission in the blog component of the app (rather than the whole route, so people can still read). It’s simple for now, just an env var defined at server start, and an <input type=”password”> field that it checks before creating/editing and a prompt before deleting any blog posts in the db and frontend.
  • https://github.com/brianmahlstedt/bmahlstedt.com/issues/7.
  • axios’ delete method passes data. post passes body.
  • PM2 is a very popular process manager for node. It can be used to start an express app, like `pm2 app.js` instead of `node app.js` or nodemon app.js`.
  • Created the ticket for and started working on the container deployment of the new apps that make up bmahlstedt.com: https://github.com/brianmahlstedt/bmahlstedt.com/issues/9. Will finish when I get back from Hawaii in a week!