Front End Development

A large portion of my program has focused on front-end web development. First, we covered the basics of HTML and CSS. Then, we added Bootstrap as a way to quickly create responsive layouts, and Javascript in order to manipulate the DOM. Finally, we added React in addition to each other element to create reusable component-oriented projects.

Projects

bidpro-admin

Throughout the Front End Development II course, we continually built new features into a React project called bidpro-admin.

Within this project, we used Storybook to build and test our components in isolation from the project as a whole. We also used Redux and the Redux Toolkit to save our user input in a store that we could access throughout our application, rather than lifting state between components.

Different pages on our site handled various features, by which we learned React concepts. One example of this was a page that would ask the user to input a string, validate that input, determine whether it was a palindrome, display an alert depending on whether or not it was, and then display the results of this test on a separate page alongside all previous tests.

samkroes.com

The site that you're currently on has been in development since November 21st, 2024, when I was lucky enough to be able to purchase my own name as a domain.

Since then, I have been learning about what it takes to host a site and adding new content almost every day. I will be screenshotting my site at different points in time in order to show how it has progressed between any significant changes.

One possibility is that I will be creating subdomains on which I can publish future class assignments. As this happens, I will be sure to post links here as my portfolio.