Yost's Posts
JavaScript tutorials + other stuff

Hi, I'm Ryan. I live in Denver and work remotely as a JavaScript/React/Node Developer. I'm always having fun building side projects and sometimes write JavaScript-related tutorials that help folks build things, too.

Things I've built

ai-prompt-organizer

Super simple and scalable AI prompt management tools

ScriptsFlix

Browse TV and Movie scripts like you're on Netflix.

React SPA Starter

Fully-featured boilerplate for single-page React applications. Comes with automated AWS resource provisioning and CI/CD configurations.

React Simple Storage

Simple component and helper functions for using web storage with React.

Demo Screenwriting Software

The basic foundation of a sleek screenwriting software product.

Movie Medium

A game where you predict the Rotten Tomatoes scores of upcoming movies. Play with friends on GroupMe or coworkers in Slack (available in the Slack app marketplace).

View frontend and backend code on GitHub

DepChecker

Analyzes a project’s package.json file and generates a detailed report about the state of its npm dependencies.

View frontend and backend code on GitHub

React Simple Storage

Simple component and helper functions for using web storage with React.

News Sites Scraper

A Node.js program that screenshots and scrapes links from dozens of news sites. It uploads the images to a CDN and saves the scraped data and CDN response to a MongoDB database.

First Job Finance

Tools and checklists to help adults-in-progress stress less about their personal finances.

DOM Events Playground

A site for learning and playing around with DOM events

Skills, concepts and familiar tech

General

JavaScript
ES6 / ES7
Async/Await
npm
Git
Bash
Webpack
ESLint
JSDoc
Babel

Front End

React
Redux
React Native
Emotion
Styled Components
Sass/SCSS
Storybook
Responsive Design
Bootstrap
Material UI
HTML5
CSS3
jQuery

Back End

Node
Express
MongoDB
Mongoose
Puppeteer
Hapi.js
Redis

Testing

Mocha
Chai
Jest
Cypress

Concepts

REST API
CI/CD
Agile/SCRUM
Technical Writing
Testing
Authentication

Tools

GitHub
Bitbucket
Jira
AWS (Certified Cloud Practitioner)
CircleCI
Heroku

Things I've written

Redux-Saga tutorial for beginners and dog lovers

Build a simple app that fetches dog images using React, Redux & Redux-Saga

published on Hacker Noon

How to build fully responsive React apps with nothing but inline styles and JavaScript

A tutorial for devs sick of chaotic stylesheets and media queries.

published on codeburst
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