Christopher Macrander

The MindsetKit is a website of resources from education and psychology experts, and also from parents and educators across the country. Users can write and upload anything they want to share about how they promote learning mindsets in their students, and the resulting resources are curated for publication.

I designed and wrote the server API entire backend for this app, and co-wrote the front end. I'm very proud that so many people use this resource.

Copilot is a web app that structures educators into teams and guides them through an iterative program of improvement, based on data collected from students through the app. It allows for multiple levels of permission and supervision and can walk all users through the process step by step. Programs are configurable, so a simple markup file can define a new set of steps to follow. Surveys are collected, and data analyzed and reported on, automatically. Really amazing things happen when teachers interact with real and relevant data with the support of their peers.

I and one reporting developer co-wrote this app, and it's one of the most exciting things I've worked on. For more basic information see perts.net/engage

When bootstrapping simple React apps, I often use Flux-like or Redux-like patterns right away, even if I haven't decided on whether to include a full Redux set up. This higher-order component (HOC) lets me treat the top-level component's state like a global store, use selectors to grab data out of it, and intelligently mask and re-render the component based on what data it needs.

Using the OpenAPI specification and Swagger enabled me to write server code efficiently. Code generators like exegesis-express can automatically validate requests and responses. Documentation generators can create beautiful API docs based on a living, a single-source-of-truth standard for my API. This is just a quick demo showing CRUD operations, authentication, and schema validation.