vic-orlands.hashnode.devJavaScript Array.at() methodBefore the arrival of Array.at() method, JavaScript developers have used many and different ways to return items from an array but there was still need to use negative indexing to get the last item. Array[0] will return the first item but to return t...Nov 2, 2021·2 min read
vic-orlands.hashnode.devHOW TO BLUR A BACKGROUND IMAGE IN REACT-NATIVEThis is quite different from my react article because even though both are Facebook technologies and bear the name react, they are not really alike. So lets go ahead and write some magics now, hope your fingertips are ready for some abracadabra. So l...Dec 2, 2020·3 min read
vic-orlands.hashnode.devHOW TO BLUR A BACKGROUND IMAGE IN REACTThe first time I tried this, I used opacity on the image but it didn’t work like I wanted, the styling made even the overlay texts to be opaque by taking the same opacity styling with the image. And so I went into finding a solution for this and afte...Nov 30, 2020·2 min read
vic-orlands.hashnode.devBuilding a simple React ModalI have always used the react-modal package whenever I wanted to use a modal in a project but along the way, I wanted to build mine from scratch and it was so easy that I wondered why I resorted to the npm package. This will be a short article and ver...Nov 29, 2020·5 min read
vic-orlands.hashnode.devGoogling your errors as a Junior DeveloperThere is this misconception among junior developers about coding errors. When they encounter errors and bugs, they seem to get frustrated and think Oh! I'm not getting it and if this occurs more often they question themselves like "Am I sure this jou...Nov 28, 2020·6 min read
