Day 89 of 100 Days of Code & Scrum: Coding Janitor

Hello there, everyone!

Lots of cleanup and refactoring work. I looked at my old projects from 1-2 years ago like my online chat application, and I saw a lot of dirty, unused code and several lines of comments that are already irrelevant. I usually get too excited when moving on to a different project and learning new technologies, so I rarely make an effort to maintain some of my older ones.

That being said, it is nice to look back and see how much I've improved over time by comparing how I coded back then and how I do now.

Anyway, let's move on to my daily report!

Yesterday

I finished coding and then deployed the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy pages for my company site. I learned more about Next.js and SQL.

Today

Company Website

• I did a lot of re-factoring and cleaning up of unused code to improve performance and readability.

Older Projects

• cleaned up a lot of dirty, unused code and comments.

Next.js

• learned about Next.js deployment settings:
  • seems like you can turn module.exports in next.config.js into a function to return an object based on various conditions such as environment.
  • when deploying to Vercel, it seems like you can choose to use next.config.js or the Vercel console to set environment variables.
• continued going through Next.js & React by Maximilian Schwarzmüller.

SQL

• learned about different types of JOIN.
• continued to go through SQLZoo's SQL Tutorial.

Scrum

• I couldn't do much related to Scrum for today.

Thank you for reading! Have a good day!

Resources/Recommended Readings

• Next.js & React by Maximilian Schwarzmüller
• Next.js official documentation
• SQLZoo's SQL Tutorial
• The 2020 Scrum Guide

DISCLAIMER

This is not a guide, it is just me sharing my experiences and learnings. This post only expresses my thoughts and opinions (based on my limited knowledge) and is in no way a substitute for actual references. If I ever make a mistake or if you disagree, I would appreciate corrections in the comments!

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