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kimberlyleo — Fri, 29 May 2020 01:04:15 +0000

I have been working on my Portfolio site ✨ which is a static site built using React, deployed on GH pages. I have noticed a bit of lag on the act of deployment consistently. I never kept track of time required for updates to be seen- though I plan to attempt this now. This time it seems that despite the repo responding to updates (new code in the repo) and deployments being recorded in the repository's deployment activity log, the actual site is unchanged, 20 hours later.

I was researching this issue trying to figure it out and found out that there is a site where you can check on GitHub's status and read through incident reports. I thought that was very cool.
I also found this Quora article which led me to realize that maybe GH wasn't the problem despite the delay from the Jekyl deployment. The issue, I discovered was that I forgot how deployment on GH fundamentally works (lol) and had incorrectly assumed that it was happening automatically.

There were deployments being logged every time I merged my work into my deployed branch and no errors were noted (except minor dependency warnings). I had totally forgotten about optimizing the build for prod.

Here are the commands that I had forgotton:

deploy via command line

yarn run build
yarn run deploy

To be honest, certain things are still unclear about the most proper deployment procedures and if anyone has found good articles that would help, please share!! 🙂

Bootcamp Intro

kimberlyleo — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:27:18 +0000

I am already in my 4rd week of my coding bootcamp and so far we have been introduced to HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, and Ruby.

Javascript was very cool; my favorite part was using iterations to solve little logic problems. Javascript is very interesting because it has existed for so long but it has maintained its relevance by regularly transforming.
Javascript was a fun way to be introduced to site functionality such as button clicking, etc.

Next we covered React and that was pretty difficult for me (I am still actively working on React overview and exercises). It is complicated but and excellent tool. It allowed us to build fully functional interactive sites and games which is exciting for entry level devs. The fact that it's compiled causes some funky errors but that was a learning opportunity in itself because it definitely won't be the last compiled framework that I will use.
We did quite a few exercises with React and some notable ones were: a treasure hunt game, tic-tac-toe, dice roller, and Magic 8 Ball.
I am excited to keep working on React.

This week we entered Ruby Land and I LOVE IT. Ruby was already an interesting language to me and I am glad to say: it is living up to the hype.
Until next time,
xoxoCodeGirl

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