My Flatiron School Blog


Documenting my progress and sharing insights

Everything You Want is on the Other Side of Fear

I remember how several years ago, when I was still living in New York, whevever I would run into Flatiron School website, I would always feel so jelous of the graduates featured on its pages. I would always get upset and say to myself, “Olesya, you will never be able to do this”. I definitely had the calling, but my fear to lose was stronger than my desire to learn.


Airbnb Clone Built with React and Redux

For my final project I decided to build this simple airbnb clone for Puerto Rico. I named it PRairbnb. It lets the user create listings and leave reviews for the listings. My project has two directories - client side and server side. The server side is responsible for handling the data and the client side handles the front-end part of the application. The technologies used for the front-end are React and Redux. Let me walk you through the builing process of this app.


JS and Rails SPA Trip Finder

Welcome to my JS and Rails SPA Trip Finder app! My app lets you look for trips by type and area and to create new ones. It was a very fun project to build because I had to create my own API with Ruby and Rails and use JavaScript to display the API data. All interactions between the client and the server are handled asynchronously and use JSON as the communication format.


Rails Book Store

I’m happy to present you my first rails project - an online book store!


Sinatra Travel Blog

I am very excited to present you my Sinatra Travel Blog! I’ve been wanting to build a blog for a while, and now that I have enough knowledge I’m very happy to finally have been able to execute my idea!