DEV Community

Cover image for October 15th, 2020: What did you learn this week?
Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor Subscriber

Posted on

October 15th, 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.

![Yoda wooping someone's butt](https://media.giphy.com/media/yDYAHbqe5DfyM/giphy.gif)

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.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

![Little kid making a fist as if to say "Yes!"](https://media.giphy.com/media/6brH8dM3zeMyA/giphy.gif)

Top comments (43)

Collapse
 
hb profile image
Henry Boisdequin

This week, I learnt Flutter. As a React dev, I started learning React Native but found how slow it was. I would run it on a simulator and my Google Chrome would crash (couldn't even check StackOverFlow 😢). Naturally, I went to the next best option: Fluttter. I have been trying it out for the past few days and have seen that it is so much better than React Native. I will still use React (the best web framework) but I will not use React Native. Just because you are in an ecosystem (e.g. react ecosystem) doesn't mean you have to do everything in that ecosystem and hate everything else. I think that is the biggest thing I learnt this week

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce

Collapse
 
vaibhavkhulbe profile image
Vaibhav Khulbe • Edited
Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

Collapse
 
cchana profile image
Charanjit Chana

I spent some time discovering how best to optimise for Reader View in Safari. Looks like there’s a lot of nuance and I even found cases where it would change the layout. Got there in the end (mostly), after plenty of trial and error.

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Yeah!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

Collapse
 
tomassirio profile image
Tomas Sirio

How to keep going even though I'm stuck af

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Sometimes stepping away then coming back is what helps the most.

It's True - Dwight Shrute

Collapse
 
nastassia profile image
Nastassia Danilava

This week I've started an internet fundamentals course (hope to finish by the end of this week). I find it useful to refresh the knowledges from time to time
internetfundamentals.com/

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

Collapse
 
deeplinux profile image
deep-linux

I started learning React few weeks earlier and still do not feel confident enough to apply for a job.
This week I studied JS more deeply and I am simply amazed by it.

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Nice! I. Case you weren’t aware. Kent C. Dodds has a great free beginner React course on egghead.io, kentcdodds.com/blog/the-beginners-.... Also, another great free React resource is Frontend Armory. It used to be a paid subscription, but now it’s entirely free. Check out frontarm.com.

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

Collapse
 
deeplinux profile image
deep-linux

Yes it was him(and official docs) who made me understand React.

Collapse
 
patarapolw profile image
Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

wget vs cURL

wget is not just GET request maker, but for downloading almost anything.

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

Collapse
 
developerplane1 profile image
Developers Planet • Edited

I am learning node js behind the scene

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

Collapse
 
link2twenty profile image
Andrew Bone

I learnt about frontend test 😉

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

Gym teacher from Glee saying amazing!

Collapse
 
juniordevforlife profile image
Jason F

I started looking more in to Sass. I created media query breakpoints as mixins for the first time.

Collapse
 
cchana profile image
Charanjit Chana

You won’t regret it! I haven’t written pure CSS out of choice for about 10 years now, I always opt for LESS/SASS.

When you get time, check out bourbon.io 🥃

Collapse
 
nickytonline profile image
Nick Taylor

A puppet Yeti clapping their hands saying congratulations