Monica Powell

Hi, I'm Monica! I'm a product engineer who is building technology to elevate people and is currently focusing on growing the React Ladies community for React developers.

New York Joined on May 13, 2017

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Full Stack Engineer

Monica Powell

Sep 12

Best Practices For Keeping Server-Side Rendering Cool

#react #ssr #jamstack

11 min read

Recent Comments

re: 6 Transformative Tech Conference Talks Sep 7

Thanks for sharing The Art of Code! I’m looking forward to gi...

re: Give Your CSS Superpowers with CSS Variables May 24

Thanks, that's good to know. Are you an Opera Mini browser us...

re: Give Your CSS Superpowers with CSS Variables May 24

CSS variables are supported in most modern browsers. Accordin...

re: Understanding Reduce in JavaScript May 1

Thanks for the feedback! It took a while for me to wrap my he...

re: Creating a CLI to Automate File Creation May 1

Did you end up trying out Plop? How'd it go?

re: Refactoring useState() To useReducer() May 1

Thanks for reading!

re: Refactoring useState() To useReducer() May 1

Oooo thanks for sharing your approach in Vue. I agree that us...

re: Refactoring useState() To useReducer() May 1

Thanks for the naming suggestion! I'm always trying to figure...

Monica Powell

Sep 12

How to Make Your VSCode Sparkle

#vscode

3 min read

Monica Powell

Sep 6

6 Transformative Tech Conference Talks

#conferences #javascript #business #community

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3 min read

Monica Powell

Aug 24

Adding Environment Variables To GitHub Actions

#tutorial #github #actions #opensource

3 min read

Monica Powell

Jul 11

How To Create A GitHub Profile README

#github #branding #markdown

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3 min read

Monica Powell

Jul 5

Exploring Art Direction to Dynamically Load Images

#gatsby #graphql #css #design

3 min read

Monica Powell

May 23

Give Your CSS Superpowers with CSS Variables

#css #codepen #tutorial #webdev

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3 min read

Monica Powell

May 1

Top Gatsby Plugins For Developer Blogs

#gatsby #blog #seo #webdev

4 min read

Monica Powell

Apr 8

Refactoring useState() To useReducer()

#react #reduce #webdev #javascript

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6 min read

Monica Powell

Apr 1

Understanding Reduce in JavaScript

#javascript #es6 #functional #tutorial

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5 min read

Monica Powell

Mar 7

Creating a CLI to Automate File Creation

#javascript #react #gatsby #tutorial

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9 min read

Monica Powell

Dec 5 '19

How To Add Search Functionality to a Gatsby Blog

#react #javascript #gatsby #tutorial

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12 min read

Monica Powell

Nov 21 '19

Less JavaScript Makes Font Awesome More Awesome

#react #javascript #fontawesome #performance

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4 min read

Monica Powell

Nov 21 '19

Delete Your Code and Other Reflections from Coderetreat Day

#pairprogramming #tdd #coderetreat #extremeprogramming

9 min read

Monica Powell

Jun 2 '19

Grey’s Anatomy Lorem Ipsum Generator Tutorial

#netlify #tutorial #javascript #react

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11 min read

Monica Powell

Mar 24 '19

git is hard, but time travel in git is easy.

#git #github #debugging #opensource

2 min read

Monica Powell

Oct 29 '18

React Ladies: Call for NYC Speakers

#react #nyc

1 min read

Monica Powell

Nov 26 '17

How to Add Author Bio to Posts in Jekyll

#jekyll #python

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2 min read

Monica Powell

Nov 26 '17

How to Import CSV and XLS Data into Pandas

#python #beginners

3 min read

Monica Powell

Nov 26 '17

How to Use the TMDB API to Find Films with the Highest Revenue

#api #python #culture #webdev

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