Jesstin Swadley

Polling Webs App - Adding Options & Getting Polls

A poll is made of multiple parts, first the inquiry/question, next the options, and lastly the responses of the poll. At the moment I am only storing the first part, so it is time to expand my apps capabilities by storing options and getting polls. Storing Options Options Schema

Polling Web App - Storing Polls

As I continue my experiment with Typescript, I've learned that the Typescript support for Sequelize while existing, isn’t quite there yet. There’s a fair amount of tinkering involved, in order to make everything work. This raised the question: why not explore a new ORM? There are

Polling Web App - Setting up the Polls

With my ongoing e-commerce project with Jamil Madison, I wanted to experiment & understand Typescript. As this is an election year, I thought a fun little project to do would be a "simple" polling app. This app will consist of a frontend, backend, and database. I chose to

Vict E-commerce: Open for business

For the last blog Vict E-commerce: Adding Basic Security I implemented a change going from JWT to sessions while my overall understanding of security has improved slightly there is still room for improvement not only on my comprehension, but also in the code for this project. If you would like

Vict E-commerce: Adding Basic Security

Researching Security Options In my previous blog Vict E-commerce: Setting Up Shop we went over setting things up for working collaboratively between myself & Jamil, as well as database management for merchants, products, & storefronts. In this blog, I go over what we learned about JWT vs sessions and how

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