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In today's episode, Jared Potter and Juan Lizarazo talk about two essential collections in JavaScript - Sets & Maps. Although similar to plain javascript arrays and objects, Sets & Maps, respectfully offer crucial benefits over their similarly younger siblings.

Come, listen, and learn how to start using sets and maps in your javascript code that will save you time, energy, and frustration writing boilerplate code over and over.  Knowing how to use sets and maps will impress your next coding interview and help you land your first software engineering job!

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In our latest episode, Juan Lizarazo and Jared Potter share their personal experiences working as professional software engineers and software engineering instructors at coding boot camps, the most common mistakes students make in their frontend code.  

Learning about and understanding these mistakes and the tips we offer to avoid them will help you be a better software engineer and help you land your first engineering job or level you up to the best software engineer on your team!

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In today's episode, Juan Lizarazo & Jared Potter explore the three key Core Web Vitals to optimize your website for the best user experience. The Core Web Vitals are a set of guidelines and tools created by Google for optimizing any website. 

Knowing how to create a web app optimized from the beginning will increase your employers' marketability to help you land your first software engineering job!

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You've likely heard of React, Angular, and Vue - but what are they? What value do they provide for web software engineers? And why are they so popular?   In today's episode, Jared Potter & Juan Lizarazo discuss what's the difference between a library & framework, the primary core benefits shared by React, Angular, and Vue, and why you should explore each of them.  

Technical interviews may ask you questions about these libraries & frameworks - be prepared for those questions by listening to our latest episode!

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What is a pure function? Are all functions pure? Side-effects? Those can't be good, can they?

What are the benefits of writing pure functions in your JavaScript code - node, vanilla JS, Angular, Vue, React, etc.?  

In our latest episode, Juan Lizarazo and Jared Potter clearly define what pure functions are, what their key benefits are, and when to use them. However, we also explore how not all functions should be pure for most javascript web applications. We also discuss the correct usage of side-effects and how it provides us great value!  Many interviews will ask questions about pure functions - be ready by listening to our podcast and doing your homework to help you become a better web software engineer and help you land your first tech job! 

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What's the difference between a plain simple index.html static web app, and the "popular" single-page apps built with Vue, React, and Angular? 

When should you use one over the other?  Jared Potter and Juan Lizarazo explore the difference between a static web app and a SPA web app. 

Along the way, we talk about each's pros and cons and when to use one over the other. For many types of projects - a simple index.html, style.css, and index.js files are all you need. When highly dynamic content is at play, a Single Page App built with Vue, React, or Angular becomes more effective.  

Learning this distinction will help you become a better web software engineer and help you land your first tech job!

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Why is it important to learn, understand, and practice continuous integration (CI) in 2021+? Where do I start with CI?

In our latest episode, Juan Lizarazo and Jared Potter discuss getting started with CI using the best, most available, and often free Continuous Integration (CI) tools & platforms! Learning to understand CI will improve your software development efficiency to build even faster! Most importantly, grasping CI concepts will undoubtedly impress in your next technical interviews!

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What is the DOM? Why is it so essential to learn DOM Manipulation with Pure JavaScript? How does React, Vue, and Angular use the native DOM APIs along with their own Virtual DOMs?

In today's Dev Bootcamp Life episode, Jared Potter and Juan Lizrazo discuss these crucial questions and explore their answers. Understanding the DOM and its native pure javascript APIs will make you a better web software engineer to level up and or help you land your tech first job!

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What is a JavaScript Module? Why are they important? What's the difference between AMD, CJS, UMD, and ESM? Which one should I be using in 2021? What's a module loader vs. module bundler? Do I need to tree-shake my dependencies?

Join Juan Lizarazo and Jared Potter in today's episode to learn the answers to these questions to help you build optimized and maintainable JavaScript applications both on the frontend and the backend!

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In 2021, software engineers must build security into their processes from the beginning. Software companies value security-minded candidates for their open positions. Be prepared to show your security knowledge during the interview to improve your chances of landing your first software engineering position!  In this episode, we explore practical tips and techniques to ensure your web apps are secure! From foundational personal security, HTTP vs. HTTPS, cross-site-scripting attacks, user authentication, and user input validation and sanitization.