Blanca Mendizábal Perelló

Blanca is a full-stack software developer, currently focused on JavaScript and modern frontend technologies such as React. Blanca can be reached at her blog https://groundberry.github.io/ or @blanca_mendi on Twitter.

Web
Supporting CORS by Proxying Requests with Express

When our frontend makes requests to a backend that lives in a different domain, we'll have to deal with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). In this article we'll build an Express proxy that will request stock data from the IEX API on our behalf, and will emit the right CORS headers so that our frontend can access it without problems.

by Blanca Mendizábal Perelló
June 21, 2019 Share
Web React
Dealing with CORS in Create React App

If you've ever built a web app that had to request data from a different domain, you've probably had to wrap your head around the browser's same-origin policy and CORS. In this article we'll learn how to get around CORS issues using Create React App's proxying capabilities.

by Blanca Mendizábal Perelló
April 25, 2019 Share
Web React
Rendering Stock Market Data with KendoReact StockChart

In this article we are going to build a React app to gather user input, use that input to request data from an API, and then render that data as a cool chart using the KendoReact StockChart. If you follow along, you'll have a nice little app that renders historical stock data in no time!

by Blanca Mendizábal Perelló
April 02, 2019 Share
Productivity Testing
Forcing Myself to Write Unit Tests

Unit tests have a ton of benefits. But first you have to write them. Here's how I forced myself to do it and improved my React development.

by Blanca Mendizábal Perelló
March 07, 2019 Share
Web React
5 Things I Didn't Know about Create React App

Looking for tips for using Create React App? Here are five features you may not know about.

by Blanca Mendizábal Perelló
November 06, 2018 Share