October 22nd, 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 ・ Oct 23 '20

#discuss #weeklyretro


Comments

[Gary Bell]

I had a semi-productive week:

• I learned about yield in PHP, and found a genuine use case for it (not a contrived example used in documentation).
• I learned about output sections for PHP's Symfony framework
• I learned that the latest piece of code is too tightly coupled, that I can't debug the unit tests successfully, and will need to raise a technical debt issue once I have it working.

[Nick Taylor]

[Waylon Walker]

Finding that first use of a new concept is an amazing feeling.

[Stephen Belovarich]

I learned the ins and outs of optimizing the build of a massive React / Emotion UI component library. Build time went from 45 minutes to 90 seconds and now every component is properly bundled for distribution. 🎊

Learned how to replicate basic functionality of ngFor / ng-repeat in Angular for Web Components in less than 200 lines of code.

[Nick Taylor]

[Waylon Walker]

That is a super impressive speed gain! Dare I say post worthy.

[Stanley Lim]

Using Next.js for the first time, diving into SSR vs static generated content.

[Nick Taylor]

That's awesome! 🔥

[Waylon Walker]

Oooh how is the ssr side of next? Ive use gatsby quite a bit and touched next for static once.

[Hillary Nyakundi]

I learned more about open source and how to contribute to it

[Waylon Walker]

Hacktoberfest baby! Did you make any contributions or just learning?

[Hillary Nyakundi]

Yes I did, it was my first and was able to submit 5 PRs

[Waylon Walker]

Dang! That is a hacktoberfest success story.

[Nick Taylor]

[Stephen Solka]

I played with bubbletea a go library for dynamic terminal apps inspired by elm's architecture.

github.com/trashhalo/imgcat

[Waylon Walker]

I am loving all of the amazing terminal apps from rust and go! Is bubbletea a common one or just one you are trying.

I like that I can make great clis in python very quick, but the TUI sorry seems to be a larger investment.

[Nick Taylor]

Awesome!

[Ken Sparks]

Learned how to use setState in React to change the look of a button onClick.

[Waylon Walker]

The killer feature of react

[Nick Taylor]

[Shannon Crabill]

Love the banner image!

I used a React hook for the first time today and wow, so much easier to manage state with useState.

[Nick Taylor]

[Waylon Walker]

I remember the first time I used react I felt about half done with the feature and was like, wait a minute everything just works! Where did the other half of the code go?

[Shannon Crabill]

That's a great way to describe the feeling.

I'm sure I am overcoming some elements but geez it's fun and helpful once you get past the learning curve.

[Takunda Madechangu]

I ejected from Expo and guess what i am enjoying the new environment. I thought is was gonna be hell but everything is going well.

I also learned how to convert Laravel apps into desktop apps for both Windows and Mac OS platforms.

I am grateful :)

[Nick Taylor]

Nice!

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

I learned how to convert HTML sites to WordPress and I enjoyed it 🤪🎉

[Nick Taylor]

Nice!

[Waylon Walker]

Interesting shift, what would be an application of moving an existing static site to php?

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

not any issues :)

[Akhyar]

Optimizing my dotfiles. Becos git bash on win are slow. Removing file here, file there. Reducing some sourcing here, sourcing there. I just realize that I need another solution to manage my dotfiles.

PING me next week please so I can write my progress again about my dotfiles.

[Nick Taylor]