Coding with Callie

When I was learning to code, I thought a project was complete when I deployed it... When I started working in tech, I realized how wrong I was 🤯 If you want to learn more about the 'what happens when something goes wrong after I deploy my code' part of software development, join the Coding with Callie live stream Thursday, December 19 at 8PM 🕗 Mandi Walls will be teaching us the basics of incident management 🚨

I had so much fun coding with Brian Jenney before the holidays! He walked me through a simple fullstack application using Next.js 🚀👩🏻💻 If you want to code alone with us, check out the recording: https://lnkd.in/eyvcaFKK

My Project Planning Tool is looking really nice. This update, I've worked on styling my project and making it responsive on different screen sizes. I really enjoyed this part, testing out color schemes and finding one that I really liked. Coding with Callie #BuildingInPublic What I've learned: I learned how to use Charka UI's custom theme. Once you've created a theme you pass it to your chakra provider, then you can add the fonts and styling you want. Chakra UI also conveniently uses layer styles, which allows you to save a combination of stylings attributes which you can apply on components you'd like to have a similar design. What I've Improved: It's always refreshing to practice my responsive design and using media queries to ensure that my application looks great on all screen sizes. Now that my app look great, I have to go through and make sure there aren't any bugs or unexpected behaviors. I'll post back once I've done a couple of manual end-to-end testing.

Don't miss Brian Jenney's talk on Next.js tonight at 8PM EST! Note: We're going to switch things up a bit and try out a livestream to YouTube so the link to join has changed. You can join here: https://lnkd.in/eS7Rrjuc

On the 8th challenge of the Coding with Callie #Deployinpublic cohort, we refactored Terraform to create a module for all the components of our infrastructure and started using Kubernetes. We created a cluster and used kubectl to deploy a pod, a deployment with multiple pods, and expose them using a service.

Whenever I post about NestJS, people are always like "uhh do you mean Next.js?"...and usually I don't HOWEVER...this time I DO mean Next.js! Join us this Thursday (11/21 at 8PM EST) where Brian Jenney will show us how to start using Next.js for your fullstack projects. I'm super geeked!

For the 7th week challenge of the Coding with Callie #Deployinpublic cohort, we added a front-end UI that works with our API so we can create and edit our database records. We refactored the infrastructure so that the load balancer directs to port 80 or 3000, depending on whether we want to connect to the UI or the API itself. We also implemented the build and deploy jobs for the front end to Github actions. Ultimately we added a Delete feature to prove that you can do subsequent deployments to a running application.

Hi all! I'm not feeling well today so I'm postponing this session to Tuesday!

Do you avoid testing your code because it seems too time consuming and difficult?! 👩🏻💻 ...well let's make an effort together to stop doing that! Writing tests actually SAVES you time and headaches 🪄 Join me this Thursday at 8PM EST as I add unit tests to our NestJS CRUD library application 🧪 Maybe we'll even try to add testing on push to GitHub!

Just completed the 6th-week challenge for the Coding with Callie DIP cohort in which we learned how to deploy an RDS Postgres database for our simple API and insert and query the data using Postman. Thanks to Daniel Neri and Kristin Richie for your help setting up Postgres and to Callie Stoscup for being supportive.