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James Hubert
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Project 42 of 100 - React & Firebase Half-Stack Blog

Hey! I'm on a mission to make 100 React.js projects ending March 31st. Please follow my dev.to profile or my twitter for updates and feel free to reach out if you have questions. Thanks for your support!

Link to today's deployed app: Link
Link to the repo: github

I remember when I first started this 100 projects in 100 days challenge- all the way back on Halloween- someone commented '...A new project a day is a big commitment for sure! What if you get engrossed with an idea and want to spend more time on it, rather than just a day?' I responded politely but essentially waved it off; I had a plan.

He was right.

The '100 projects in 100 days' challenge is significantly different from 100 days of code. I code every day. I do web dev for my job and could write a short blurb about what I do there each day. That would be a no-brainer. The 100 projects challenge- for comparison- forces you to publish a complete working project, and practice every part of the project lifecycle from conceptualization to program design to deployment each day.

If you include styling, and are working on a new skill you're actually learning as well, in my opinion signing up to do a new project while you're learning means anywhere between 3-5 hours of additional work per day. Since I'm sometimes slow getting up to speed and often rewatch coding videos for better understanding, learning something new might be a 2-3 hour daily undertaking so doing a project on top of that is incredibly hard.

For this project I took all of the last week and completed this Udemy tutorial (link here) on building a full-stack blog with React for the front-end, Firebase for the authentication and database, and Ant Design for the UI library. It also made use of React Router.

I'm not going to go into a ton of detail here. Suffice it to say I am enjoying working with Firebase and getting used to using React with Hooks on a daily basis.

See you tomorrow for a smaller project and don't forget to follow my dev twitter www.twitter.com/jwhubert91 for code updates.

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Daniel Dela Torre

Tried to access this project but it seems the link is broken.

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James Hubert

Thanks Daniel! Just a typo in the URL. Fixed.