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So this isn’t meant to be a long post,I’m only going to talk about my recently completed <a href="https://www.vikingcodeschool.com/dashboard#/professional-development-with-javascript/project-walkthrough-professional-javascript" target="_blank">Node project</a>&nbsp;.

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So this isn’t meant to be a long post,I’m only going to talk about my recently completed Node project .

I remember writing about my challenges with Node and also promising not to give up till I was able to use Node to create something meaningful. After some weeks battling with my tutorial, I got to the final project, “A Political app”.

The app was to make use of the Sunlight Congress API to display legislators based on their _Zipcode ,_Each legislator’s profile and a list of recent votes in the house/senate. I started out going through the docs on the site to know what I’ll exactly I would need and after a few playing around I decided I was ready(I wasn’t).

Writing the API wrapper made me realize I need to read up on Objects,Arrays and JSON because most of the challenges I faced writing the wrapper were as a result of my lacking in these areas.After about a week,I was sure my wrapper was working and returning the right data(I was wrong).Sending the data returned from my API call to client side was another challenge I faced but after a few tries,I got it to display.

Although my app may not be 100%,I learnt a lot from building it; where I need to work on,what to read up on,how to write cleaner code and I’ll work on this and improve as I continue learning more with Wes Bos’s Learn Node tutorial videos and I hope to start writing technical articles in the nearest future,probably on Node or something JS related.

Check it out here.

Again,cheers to getting better

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