Code Challenges are not only important for the interview, but they help us get familiar with code syntax and strengthen our problem solving. You are provided with a git repository that will take the role of a large workbook for these challenges and exercises.

You are going to create a full stack application with user authentication created with Node, React, Express, Mongoose & Mongodb that allows users to log in and vote for their favorite spelling of your app. Feel free to use a different word. Requirements: A

To install and start Mongo on Windows, follow these directions: Follow the instructions on https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/ After the program is downloaded, find the bin folder. (This is inside the mongodb program file that was installed). Copy the link to

The Ugly Things API is something we built to help students create web applications with a completely open API to use. Have fun! And don't get too crazy on it... The baseUrl is: https://api.vschool.io/<yourname>/thing[/<thingId>

As of November 10, 2020, mLab will be shutting down its services. If you need to migrate your database to use Atlas from mLab, you are strongly recommended to use their tool to migrate to Atlas. Click here for instructions. The rest of the

Write a function that takes a string and returns true if that string is a palindrome. For an added challenge, phrases with spaces and characters can be palindromes. "Eva, can I see bees in a cave?" would return true. Hints: reverseArray() reverseString(

You and 2 friends decided to start up a business. You know you need a website, but you're bootstrapping your business without external funding, so you can't pay someone else to do it. The type of business doesn't really matter, so get creative with

Your group will make an app that satisfies the following user stories. It will be similar to what was completed in Scrimba, but will be done in VS Code and in a group using git: A user will see a meme image on page

Arrow functions simplify the syntax of our traditional functions. They use symbols that make intuitive sense to help make our functions simpler. The old way of writing functions: const add = function(a, b){ return a + b; } With arrow functions, we can remove the function

Before we would require npm packages or other files from our project. Now, we use the import syntax. import axios from 'axios'; Is the same as saying const axios = requre('axios'); We can also "unpack" only the methods or items that we need from

As we've found, the easiest way to learn the new ES6 syntax is to see the old way of writing JavaScript. const expense = { type: "Business", amount: "$45 USD" }; const type = expense.type; const amount = expense.amount; ugh. So much redundancy! We have const, type,

Object literal syntax is just a way to make our code look nicer. To show how to use this, we will just look at the old/uglier way of doing things, and then see the ES6/prettier way of doing things. There are three