My final Flatiron School project used Zillow’s API to get details on a searched property, as well as details on comparable properties. To make this information even more useful, I wanted to incorporate a Google Map that showed the searched property along with the comparable addresses.
For my final Flatiron School project using React-Redux, I decided to use the Zillow API to allow users to search addresses and get details on comparable properties to help inform real estate decisions. Users could also save addresses (called homes in the code) to bring up those searches again in the future.
I’m not going to lie — the transition from Ruby and Rails to JavaScript wasn’t the easiest. Ruby’s structure and language just made sense to me, and JS felt like a similar but very different animal for quite a while.
When diving into my Rails portfolio project, I was determined to go deeper and further with my code, and thus, my app, than I had in previous projects – or labs. Months of learning how SQL, ActiveRecord, Sinatra, and Rails build off of each other and/or work together gave me the confidence to venture into some new territory. But of course, that didn’t come without some speed bumps.
I have enjoyed every section of Flatiron’s full-stack bootcamp so far - except for the SQL section. Why? SQL is (relatively) easy to understand! It’s just a big spreadsheet (more or less), and not even a very fancy one at that! Or so I thought.