Ricky Goacher | Portfolio

Featured Projects

React Package Demo Site

This site is for displaying demos of various React packages I've created, give examples of usage and provide instructions for configuration.

React Ecommerce

Work in progress:

This is a react ecommerce store built using https://dummyjson.com.

RecipeFinder

NextJs application which fetches data from a recipe API. This application demonstrates complex filtering behaviour managing the state of selected filters and building a requests based on parameters selected. This application also has search functionality and is mobile responsive.

Technical Skills

JavaScript

JavaScript is a scripting or programming language that allows the implementation of complex features on web pages.

HTML5

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the code that is used to structure a web page and its content.

CSS3

CSS is a language for specifying how documents are presented to users — how they are styled, laid out, etc.

GIT

Git is a distributed version control system that tracks changes in any set of computer files.

SASS

Sass is a preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into Cascading Style Sheets.

LESS

Less is a dynamic preprocessor style sheet language that can be compiled into Cascading Style Sheets.

Magento 2

Magento 2 is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP. Magento 2 utilizes PHP, XML, HTML, CSS (LESS) and JavaScript ( jQuery & Knockout.js).

NODE

Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment.

Featured Posts

Simple React Device Emulator

Published: 05/08/20241 Minute

This project is a reusable react component for displaying demos of websites for different device sizes and types.

Responsive design | CSS Pixels and Screen Resolution

Published: 11/07/20244 Minutes

In this post we will look at responsiveness and hopefully clear up some confusion around screen resolution and "CSS Pixels". There is often a lot of confusion when developers and designers look to improving a site responsiveness.

FoodFinder NextJs App

Published: 09/07/20244 Minutes

I began this project to improve my knowledge of React and NextJs. The challenge here was to gain a better understanding of client and server side components, working with APIs and building requests based on potentially complex user input.

Work History

2024-01-01 - 2024-11-24

Senior Frontend Magento 2 Developer

Trespass

I’m currently a senior frontend Magento 2 developer focusing on data driven development to optimise, refine and make decisions on future development opportunities.