My first portfolio site. Some feeback / tips?

Natti Katz — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:18:51 +0000

Like the title says, I am trying to put some finishing touches on my first portfolio site.

It's quite basic so far, and I took HEAVY inspiration from
Scott Tolinski

What I have left to do is the project showcase section, and I wanted to try something interesting there. Checking out a ton of examples, and not really seeing anything too inspirational.

Also not sure how I would structure client projects vs my personal side projects. Don't really want to split off a new page for it. I also only have worked on a couple different long term type of projects professionally and I want to include some of my side projects to pad out the section.

Well, here is the link:
https://katzy687.github.io/my-web-portfolio/

It's made with React and the super dope Gatsby generator.

Any feedback, critiques, dope project showcase examples are welcome.

Happy New Year!

`let` vs `const` and The Mental Mass of Functions

Natti Katz — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:52:43 +0000

let is the new var?

So this revelation of sorts was presented to me during a code review. "Why did you use let here? I don't see it changing anywhere in this function?"

Well you see, I began to explain, nearly every es6 tutorial I've seen declares let as the new de-facto var (with block scoping). Grab let as your go-to variable unless you know for a fact that you don't need to re-assign it - in that case you can use const. This seemed like a good approach to me, keeps my variables flexible until I choose to explicitly restrict them.

const first approach

"No, no, no" he began. "You should reach for const by default, and only if you intend for the variable to change should you use let. As soon as I see a let I start to look for where it will be reassigned. If you use const I can simply forget about it and have one less thing to think about."

This made so much sense to me that I'm kinda surprised it's not the default recommendation. This approach also fits right in with the functional/declarative approach to programming that I'm trying to adopt as it clearly states intent and minimizes distractions. It may seem like a minor change, but in more complex functions with multiple arguments and reassignments, this small change can be very helpful in reducing the cognitive load of the function.

Now instead of mindlessly using let 'just in case' I may want to re-assign later, I just grab const by default and in the event I'd like to re-assign halfway through a function, I'll go back and change it to a let.

Thanks for reading my first post on dev.to!

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My first portfolio site. Some feeback / tips?

`let` vs `const` and The Mental Mass of Functions

let is the new var?

const first approach