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May 26th, 2022: What did you learn this week?

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.

Thor being cocky

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.

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Lucca Biagi de Paula Prado

I'm learning Angular + ionic. It is amazing, I've done the same app attempt using vue and it wasn't so easy. Until now I'm loving it

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leob

Was that with Vue + Ionic? and what made the Vue combo harder than the Angular combo? and you were familiar with neither Angular nor Vue?

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Lucca Biagi de Paula Prado

Yes, it was Vue and ionic. I didn't felt comfortable using it, mainly, but I had some problems when I was wiring up everything (like translation with i18n).
And yes! I have the same experience with both (fixing some simple bugs), but, I think that I feel more comfortable using angular

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leob • Edited

Angular was the first and original framework implemented in Ionic, so probably it's more mature than their Vue or React versions ... also the fact that you're more comfortable with Angular probably plays a role.

I learned Angular 1, never progressed to newer releases.

I learned Vue and React after that, but I'm a big Vue fan, not a React fan ...

React just makes the dev work way too hard on arcane stuff like preventing unnecessary re-renders - you need to do your hooks and "useMemo" and whatever else exactly "right", or you'll have horrible performance with too many re-renders. What's so interesting about that, I wonder ... a (frontend) dev should be able to focus on business logic and UX, not on these obscure details - Vue just takes care of all that low level stuff and lets you focus on what's important.

And, Vue does all that while not having a larger bundle size than React (smaller even I think) ... yeah, big big Vue fan here, React is not really for me, every time I see articles or discussions on how to do things "right" in React I think, what's all the fuss, Vue makes all that easy with it's reactive architecture.

(funny - Vue is in fact more "reactive" than React, what's in a name, lol)

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Lucca Biagi de Paula Prado

Wow! I didn't knew that! Makes sense. TBH, I don't understand the needs that created react.

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leob

Yeah well, React isn't a completely bad or useless concept, but in my opinion Vue makes a dev's life much easier ... in React communities I always see these hugely technical debates about HOCs and hooks and props and whatever, and how to prevent unnecessary re-renders, and so on and so on ... too much stuff which IMO the framework should take care of, but which React forces the dev to handle.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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Keff

I'd suggest trying flutter afterwards if you feel like it! I can't recomend it enough

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Lucca Biagi de Paula Prado

I'll definitely try someday! Thank you!

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Evie

Happy Friday! I've been learning a lot about the MERN stack lately and this week I've learnt:

  • How to emit a custom event from a child component to its parent in React
  • How to convert an existing Express/MongoDB backend from JS to TS
  • How to add pagination functionality in React
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Nick Taylor

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Andrea Pavoni

I’ve migrated a Gitea (+ PostgreSQL) instance running on FreeBSD for 6 years to a Debian. I containerized the service using Podman and integrated with systemd (for running, monitoring and auto-updates of the containers images).

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Andrew Baisden

I worked a lot with Docker and learned some new commands.

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Nick Taylor

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Andrew Baisden

😂

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Etienne Burdet • Edited

Some more Pytest on DRF, overall mocking files to upload in tests (both Jest and DRF) and nice little hack to use setTimeout in async functions.

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Nick Taylor

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manfromcenter

I am learning gitlab CI/CD

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Nick Taylor

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Happy Chukwuma • Edited

I learnt Personal Branding and how to sustain meaningful relationships at workplace and other aspects of life. I also learnt Azure Fundamentals and how to build solutions with Azure.....still exploring this aspect though..... #WhatILearntthisweek

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Just making a insurance agency website and learning random things to complete this project 🚩🚩🚩

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Vedant Chainani

I learned a lot about Web3Auth and Applying it to a dApp using Solidity.

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Nick Taylor

Yeah!

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Rebecca Key

I'm learning more about Node.js!

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