Frontend was much more familiar territory for me, so it started slow and easy, but soon changed! Making sites properly reactive and managing state can be challenging and frontend soon started to look in many ways trickier than backend, albeit in much more comfortable surroundings.Įveryone seems to find CSS 'fiddly'. Once I got my head around it though, everything seemed to slip into place and the last week was a breeze. Backend block had started out really difficult, with plenty of new concepts to grasp and had taken about two weeks before I understood what i was doing. Those of you who are particularly vigilant 👀 might have noticed there was quite a gap between that last entry and this, but I am finally getting close to catching up 😏įrontend can be more complicated than backend. 👨‍💻 The pressure to get a job is coming fast and there are projects to finish for that all important shiny portfolio website. The pace really started to escalate in boot camp as the workload began to ramp-up leading towards final project phase. All finished off with fresh herbs 🌿 from our vertical herb garden. One stir fry with some of our own carrots 🥕 and some of Alys' (my youngest daughter) peas, which are definitely the most successful crop this year. Late July/early August are when thing really start to hot-up in the garden 🌞 🌵 Everything is fruiting and we finally had first taste of our hard work. Hey again 👋 it's been too long! I had been looking forward to frontend block since the course began and it didn't disappoint, although the late blog entry probably goes to show just how busy thing started to get! Dev Journey Introduction Boot Camp Weeks 1 & 2 JavaScript Foundations Backend Block Frontend Block Final Project Phase

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