November 13th, 2020: 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.


Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL post to give it some more exposure.

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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.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

What was your win this week?

Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team ・ Nov 13 '20

#discuss #weeklyretro


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Comments

[Tomas Sirio]

I'm learning about design patterns because I feel it will make my coding a lot easier and more professional

[Nick Taylor]

That's awesome! 🔥

[Harsh Shandilya]

Learned how to use the ConstraintLayout composable in Jetpack Compose and used that to fix a bunch of UX bugs in my Compose playground app, also started learning how to use Kotlin's multiplatform-friendly libraries so I can eventually use this same codebase to develop a desktop version :D

Reimplement LobstersItem to not require swipe actions #73

msfjarvis posted on Nov 08, 2020

Work towards #65

TODO:

• [x] Figure out why only the last tag shows in the UI Fixed by using Row to lay it out like earlier

Screenshot

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Migrate to Ktor for network operations #72

msfjarvis posted on Nov 08, 2020

Still a work in progress, crashes during loading right now Crashes are fixed and tests were added back, good to go now.

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[Nick Taylor]

Nice!

[Adam Van Hine]

That is awesome! Keep up the good work.

[Chinwe Promise]

I recently started learning Javascript. This week I learnt arrays, functions, DOM, Objects and method. Going forward, I stilll have a lot to cover.

[Nick Taylor]

Awesome! Also, don't get overwhelmed by all the stuff to learn. Do it bit by bit.

• Sarah Edo has a really great tool for learning array methods called Array Explorer. You can check out links to it in here Tweet

Sarah Drasner

@sarah_edo

🎁 A present for people learning JS! Finding the right array method can mean searching the docs one method at a time… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

18:53 PM - 27 Dec 2017

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• Microsoft just released a free Web Development for Beginners curriculum if you're interested.

Announcing a Free Curriculum: Web Development for Beginners

Jen Looper ・ Nov 12 ・ 3 min read

#javascript #webdev #beginners #css

• I also have a bunch of resources that you may want to check out.

Frontend Developer Resources

Nick Taylor (he/him) ・ Jan 6 ・ 11 min read

#frontend #javascript #css #html

• Lastly, follow the JavaScript tag if you aren't already

#javascript

<p>Once relegated to the browser as one of the 3 core technologies of the web, JavaScript can now be found almost anywhere you find code. </p><p>JavaScript developers move fast and push software development forward; they can be as opinionated as the frameworks they use, so let's keep it clean here and make it a place to learn from each other!</p>

Excited to see what you make with your new skills. Maybe even blog about it! 😄

[Chinwe Promise]

Thank you for the resources.

[Cesar Aguirre]

I learned to always have a backup of your data and a backup computer. My laptop crashed and I almost lost my work from the previous 2 days

[Nick Taylor]

[Rafi]

I learned about decorators in rails (using them to clean up views and other things) and about memory_profiler. Probably I should write about it.

[Nick Taylor]

Awesome!

[Miguel Stevens]

Learned that manipulating SVG and transforming into PNG is way harder than I thought.

[Nick Taylor]

[Marian]

media query transitions look much better if I add something like transition: 1s;

[Nick Taylor]

[Etienne Burdet]

I learn to correctly import old ES5 modules in both snowpack and Rollup. Took me a while to narrow it down to the problem.

Remember crowd: commonjs() BEFORE nodePolyfill().

[Nick Taylor]

[Vicente G. Reyes]

I learned that environment variables in react should be REACT_APP_ENV_VAR. It took me a few hours to take the documentation seriously.

[Nick Taylor]

[Lisa Armstrong]

I'm getting smart about NPM packages etc.
Peter Jang's article is a brilliant guide.
peterxjang.com/blog/modern-javascr...

[Nick Taylor]