Introduction
My journey into learning State Management began with an introduction to the club's fellow members and a general direction that we would all head into while making our own business oriented portfolio project in the next 6 weeks.
Week 1 Goals
- Watch Mark Erikson and Joel Hooks talk on Redux
- Study Readme Driven Development Ideology
- Choose a Project to build
- Create a Readme file focused on Readme-Driven-Development
Goal 1: Watch Mark Erikson and Joel Hooks talk on Redux
Their talk gave me an insight on what Redux is, at its core. I learnt when I should use redux and when should I not. Amongst other valuable information, Mark also introduced redux toolkit, which I would later add into my project.
I also got a list of resources, blogs to go deep in the State Management rabbit hole.
Goal 2: Study Readme-Driven-Development (RDD) Ideology
Taylor and Will provided an interesting article on RDD by Tom Preston Werner. This article defined RDD for me and clearly stated differences between Document-Driven-Development (DDD) and RDD.
I studied that and looked at some examples of RDD development, to summarize that a good readme should, in my opinion:
- be direct, short and structured about the project and its features
- clarify what a user can do with the project/application
- clarify developer related information such as tech stack
- clarify future goals of the project, if any
Takeaway:
RDD is a great approach for Project development because it gives an outline to the developers on what needs to be created with a set of pre-decided tools. It also gives users/contributors an understanding of what can be done with the project.
Goal 3: Choose a Project to build
Right after watching Mark Erikson and Joel Hooks talk on Redux, I dived into the official Redux documentation where I found a link to an Egghead course by Dan Abramov on Fundamentals of Redux.
Then, I brainstormed at several business oriented ideas that could help me practice state management along the journey. I shortlisted a project which would allow users to generate available domain names for their businesses and potentially help them find the best deal to buy the same. I named it "Find my Domain"
Moving further, I started working on the Project's Readme file.
Goal 4: Create a Readme file focused on RDD
Equipped with the information from videos, courses and RDD documentation, I looked at multiple examples of well written RDD Readmes across GitHub. I also referred to how my clubmates had written theirs.
Finally I came up with this README.md by the end of Week 1*
Resources Referred/Studied/Watched
-Mark Erikson and Joel Hooks talk on Redux
-When and when not to reach for Redux
-Redux Introduction
-Egghead course by Dan Abramov on Fundamentals of Redux
-RDD article by Tom Preston Werner
-Another Article on RDD
-Article on writing a great Readme
-RDD Readme Example: size-limit
*I did not decide my Tech stack at this point and took advice from the club at the next meetup
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