It's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.
Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL post to give it some more exposure.
#todayilearned
Summarize a concept that is new to you.
And remember, if something you learnt was a big win for you, then you know where to drop it as well.πππ»ππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
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I learned how to migrate existing Typescript codebases over to an Nx monorepo. I am really surprised how wonderful this tool is. They have a great video tutorial on how to use it and after exploring lots of monorepo solutions, Lerna/Rush/Etc, this has been the best experience.
I learned about using Knex and Sqlite3 library with an express server; also about using migrations and seeds. Back end stuff.
I learned that Pico-8 is a whole lot of fun! It lets you build retro style games using Lua within a (highly constrained) virtual console.
It has very basic tools built into it for creating animated sprites and sound effects, which at first seem far too simplistic but then become fun as a design exercise in minimalism.
It is also very kid-friendly tool as long as they have someone with some coding experience to guide them. Even kids that can't read yet or write code would enjoy playing with the sound effects and sprite editor while someone else writes the code.
Fair warning, documentation is limited and the API is tiny. But because Pico-8 makes it so easy to explore the source of any games shared in public and ships with a few examples of its own, it has a kind of enjoyable "Learn by copy-paste and see what happens" feel to it.
GatsbyJS! I love its incredible speed β‘
I learned how to run a Proxmox hypervisor server on a dedicated Hetzner Root server. To set up everything the way we wanted was quite tricky and I'll be posting about those soon.
I finally started using tmux. I haven't used anything more than the basic panes and windows, but I already love it, yes especially in conjucture with vim!
lol
every developer is blinded by his own ideas... (actually did not learn this, this week.. known this for years.. though unexpectedly my boss...).. so my yoyo for the week
The meaning of PropTypes.shapes on ReactJs
fetch()requests make so much more sense now! The world of APIs are now at my fingertips.