Hi, I'm Ryan. I live and work in Chicago as a Front End Engineer. I'm always working on side projects and sometimes write JavaScript-related tutorials that help folks build things, too.
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- 💻Check out some of my code on GitHub. I mostly use React, Node and supporting players
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Things I've built
React SPA Starter
Fully-featured boilerplate for single-page React applications. Comes with automated AWS resource provisioning and CI/CD configurations.
Movie Medium
A game where you predict the Rotten Tomatoes scores of upcoming movies. Play with friends on GroupMe or coworkers in Slack (available in the Slack app marketplace).
DepChecker
Analyzes a project’s package.json file and generates a detailed report about the state of its npm dependencies.
React Simple Storage
Simple component and helper functions for using web storage with React.
News Sites Scraper
A Node.js program that screenshots and scrapes links from dozens of news sites. It uploads the images to a CDN and saves the scraped data and CDN response to a MongoDB database.
First Job Finance
Tools and checklists to help adults-in-progress stress less about their personal finances.
Skills, concepts and familiar tech
General
Front End
Back End
Testing
Concepts
Tools
Things I've written
Redux-Saga tutorial for beginners and dog lovers
Build a simple app that fetches dog images using React, Redux & Redux-Saga
How to take advantage of Local Storage in your React projects
And why you ought to.
How to build fully responsive React apps with nothing but inline styles and JavaScript
A tutorial for devs sick of chaotic stylesheets and media queries.