Hey, I'm Marcus, but I go by Mark. I'm a fullstack developer who's goal it is to work at a consultancy, or a large tech company. I pride myself on being strong in the 3 skills of TDD, Design, and Client Managment. Hope you like what you see!
I developed FreeSpend alone from the ground up. From designing its UI/UX in Adobe XD, to coding it in HTML CSS and Javascript. It's an app that lets you see how much you can spend daily, while still paying your bills and meeting your goals. I built it first in React, then React Native because I wanted to see the differences between the two. The backend uses MongoDB, deployed using AWS.
TravelOp is another React/React Native application I developed from the ground up. I started with the UI UX in Adobe XD, then coded it in HTML Javascript and CSS. It allows you to see your favorite travel influences trips, how much they cost, what they did, etc. Building this app taught me how to use TDD and OOP principals in practice. I also worked through some tough bugs using Axios to make API calls, and spinning up a server using AWS as the back end
Gold is a messenger app that has social aspects like photos and comments. I designed the UX using adobe XD.
My main skill is in JavaScript, especially React and Node.js. I compliment those skills by using AWS, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Express on the backend.
Everything I've built on this portfolio has included JavaScript in some form or another. I've taken several "JavaScript the hard parts" courses and consider myself very strong in the language.
I use Node on the backend, as well as to test and run my front end code outside of a browser. I understand slight differences between Browser based JavaScript and Node.js based JavaScript.
React is another piece of my bread and butter. I've developed multiple SPA's and web applications using the framework and definitely feel at home in the React environment.
MongoDB is my go to database, because it's so easy to convert a document into a usable JSON object. But I'm also very familiar with relationsal databases like MySQL.
Can't do front end web development without HTML. I started learning this before CSS was even a thing. I still remember the HTML 2.0 textbook.
CSS, the bane of every front end dev's existense. Because my background is in design, I learned this heavily and can use it's compilied framework like SASS and Less.
When using Node.js as a backend, Express a must. I've gotten very good at writing my own server, creating routes, and handling requests and errors.
I've used Jest for unit testing and have developed applications with 70% coverage. Automated testing is a must.
I prefer functional programming, and typically use the modular pattern, but I have also written with OOP using ES6 Class syntax. I understand JavaScripts prototypical inheritance vs classical inheritance in languages like Java.