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Chris Shatrov

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I am a developer with experience in planning, coding, testing and maintaining web applications. Doing what I love and loving what I do. Professional goal: be the best full stack programmer I can be. "Never settle, always expand and progress."

Getting Started with React and JSX

Chris Shatrov Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React Leave a Comment

I have been with Keyhole Software for nearly four years. Every time I write a new blog post it is about a new framework that I had to pick up and learn that year.

I write a lot of JavaScript daily, but previously never had the chance to start coding a project with React. But this year, I worked on a project with React. So as expected, I wanted to share my thoughts and my experiences with React.

In this post, I will give a quick introduction to React and talk about its main, most important, components. We will also take a peek at JSX and explain it, and show some code examples, which will help you have a better understanding of this library before you can move on to more complex things…

Angular Developer: JavaScript to TypeScript

Chris Shatrov Angular, Articles, JavaScript, React, TypeScript 1 Comment

New JavaScript frameworks and libraries are created every day. This generates a dilemma: which solution should we use when starting a project?

My web development experience over the last few years has mainly included the AngularJS and Backbone.js frameworks. Angular, jQuery and traditional JavaScript have been in my comfort zone. When I ended up being face-to-face with TypeScript, it felt new, scary, and pretty confusing. I want to make that transition easier for you!

The goal of this post is to provide you an understanding of TypeScript, particularly when you come from an Angular web development background. To do so, we will first give an introduction to TypeScript. We will then discuss the differences between the different versions of Angular & Angular vs. React, with an eye for what you need to know to understand the JavaScript tooling landscape TypeScript plays in. And, lastly, we’ll go through a tangible TypeScript example for a look into syntax & structure.

Blind Date with AngularJS

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Attention: The following article was published over 9 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Are you starting to work on a new application that is using AngularJS? You have heard of it before and would like to know more about it? And have no idea where …

Becoming a Better Full-Stack Developer: Switching from Back to Front

Chris Shatrov Articles, BackboneJS, Development Technologies & Tools, HTML5, JavaScript 3 Comments

Attention: The following article was published over 10 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.After getting my degree, I was hired as a back-end developer at one of the largest corporations in Kansas City. I was able to gain good experience working for this company. However, …