Jami Gibbs
Written by Jami Gibbs who lives and works in Chicago as a developer.   You should follow her on Twitter 👋

2020 Year in Review

Twenty-Twenty, y’all. What a year. It was challenging for everyone in so many ways but I’m not going to rehash how insane the world got. The…

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Getting User Profile Images From a Feed Item SOQL Query

I found myself building a custom feed item list that required displaying the user’s profile image from the Chatter feed. This seemed like an…

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Websocket Chat in Salesforce with Lightning Web Components

A websocket connection is a way to exchange data between browser and server with a persistent connection. This type of connection is perfect…

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Integrating Google reCaptcha v2 into a Salesforce Lightning Component

What is Google reCAPTCHA? Google reCAPTCHA is a service that protects your website from spam and abuse. It uses a risk analysis engine and…

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2018 Year in Review

For the last few years I’ve tried to write one of these to remind myself of how many amazing things can happen in a year, mark…

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Getting Sass Running Quickly In Your React + Webpack Project

There are a lot of resources that explain how to add Sass to a React project using Webpack but many of them are complicated, assume a…

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Exposing Node Environment Variable to Handlebars Partials

The templating engine we use heavily in my work’s development team is Handlebars . Originally a fork of Mustache, Handlebars is…

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React Native & Geolocation

Finding Nearest Location

Over the weekend I built a mobile app to explore React Native and the mobile development process. While thinking about what I should build…

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My Fullstack Academy Application Experience

When I decided that I wanted to take a shot at the Fullstack Academy software development program, I had already done a lot of research. I…

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2016 Year in Review

I wrote my first ever year in review last year. In 2015 I was making some pretty big decisions that I hoped would put me on a new path…

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Learning to Code

What took you so long?

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