Jacob Graham

March 22nd, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Client Projects, Uncategorized, Web Development, WordPress Development

Client Showcase: G. Kofi Designs Online Store

The client showcase is back once again! This time, I’m pleased to share a business that I have been working with for the past couple months to bring their online sales strategy up to speed. That business is G. Kofi House of Fashion. The team at G. Kofi House of Fashion has a unique and […]

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March 20th, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in My Development Packages

How I Developed JG.js, my Powerful JS Library

JG.js is a small utility JavaScript library I wrote and maintain to speed up my frontend development workflow and to learn more about the inner workings of JavaScript and the DOM. It is designed for websites that use only vanilla JavaScript, and it automates many of the most common frontend features I have repeatedly developed […]

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March 1st, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in API Development, FastAPI, Uncategorized, Web Development

Learning FastAPI and SQLModel for API Development

Are you interested in learning FastAPI and SQLModel? I recently started a new job, and I needed to learn their tech stack. The company implements a microservices architecture, interacting with their databases through micro-apis built using FastAPI, a popular new python package for api development, using the SQLModel library as an ORM and input validator. […]

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March 1st, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in API Development, Databases, FastAPI, SQLModel, Web Development

How to Make Auto-Updating Timestamp Fields in SQLModel

It is very common in application and database design to keep fields on a table for when a record was created and last updated. These fields are common enough that many large frameworks like Laravel handle them automatically. SQLModel is a relatively new Python library that combines the data validation of Pydantic with the ORM […]

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