DEV Community

What technologies are you currently learning?

Adrian on March 26, 2020

What technologies are you currently learning?
... and what motivates you to learn this new cool technology?

Share with community!

P.S. Please mention if you are learning this as a way to get into coding or just to expand your existing knowledge for work / hobby reasons.

Ben Halpern • Mar 26 '20

Terraform.

It's going to be part of us accomplishing the next phase of our development...

The Future of DEV

Ben Halpern ・ Nov 4 '19 ・ 4 min read

#meta

Also messing around with Electronjs.

Jack Harner 🚀 • Mar 29 '20

👀👀👀

DEV desktop app in the works?

Ben Halpern • Mar 29 '20

What if it wasn’t just for DEV, but for navigating all the forums built on our open source software in the near future?

What if? 🤔

Carlos Balbuena • Mar 26 '20

Python and ReactJs. Loving Python.

Onyeriri Viktor • Mar 27 '20

Hi everyone,

I am learning react.js and UI/UX to expand my little knowledge of those technologies. I need material and professional help. Currently, am working as a junior web developer in CBIT industries.

Louis • Mar 27 '20 • Edited

Okay, so my tips for free high quality resources are....

Scrimba for getting comfortable with new frameworks or concepts (they've also got some AI tracks)
FullStackOpen to put all of the pieces together and gather enough knowledge to build full stack applications with JS.

Apart from that, if you're new, you could try the #codeathome Bootcamp by TechLabs as it's free anyd you'll become member of a very supportive community!

Onyeriri Viktor • Mar 30 '20 • Edited

Thanks, Louis I appreciate it. I checked on TechLabs their Global program is not available I will join their next phase of the program. Thanks, once more.

Eunice • Mar 31 '20

Thank you Louis

BHolz97 • Mar 27 '20

I am starting to learn Flutter, which is something I've been wanting to do for a while! I've been learning a lot about full stack web Dev for the last few months, but have always wanted to get my feet wet with mobile development. I'm having an absolute blast so far! I'm hoping to use it to add some skills onto my resume. If anyone has any recommendations for good resources to learn/practice with, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Isaac Tait • Mar 28 '20 • Edited

RedwoodJS, GraphQL, & MongoDB

Roger K. • Oct 17 '20

Can you even connect a RedwoodJS project to MongoDB?

Isaac Tait • Oct 18 '20

Redwood uses GraphQL so I think you could use the MongoDB GraphQL API
docs.mongodb.com/realm/graphql/

Roger K. • Oct 18 '20 • Edited

Thank you!. Hadn't thought that way for some reason despite how obvious it was.

ajcwebdev • Mar 6 '22

Status of RedwoodJS and MongoDB as of Early 2022

I know this is a very old comment, but I found it on the first page of Google while searching "RedwoodJS MongoDB", so I thought it might be worth including some current info for anyone else stumbling upon it today.

Should You Connect to MongoDB with Realm?

It is absolutely true that anything exposed through a GraphQL endpoint can be queried from Redwood's API in a straightforward manner with something like node-fetch or graphql-request. This is a useful way to bring in data from a third party service. You can ignore Prisma entirely, even deleting the Prisma folder containing your database schema.

But in most cases it's not really a good idea to do this. This means you leave behind the Prisma ORM entirely as your primary database tool and instead only query through a GraphQL API. I know this from experience, as I've done this on a number of example applications with tools such as Fauna and StepZen.

Problems with Extracting Prisma

There are two main reasons why circumventing Prisma entirely is usually a bad idea:

You lose out on a lot of the functionality of Redwood's CRUD scaffolding capabilities since you aren't building from a Prisma model.
Depending on what database is exposed through that endpoint and how the data is structured, GraphQL can be a sub-optimal query language.
- This isn't because GraphQL is bad (it pays my bills actually).
- However, it can be limiting in comparison to the native query languages these databases actually contain.
- In this case that query language is MQL, the MongoDB Query Language.

Prisma Now Supports MongoDB

When this comment was originally written in October 2020, Realm was the only way to connect to a Mongo database with Redwood at all. However, Prisma officially added support for MongoDB in 2021.

This means that you can now use MongoDB in your Redwood project as your entire backend, scaffold commands included. While still a layer of abstraction removed from MQL, it is a full ORM closer in spirit to Mongoose.

Still In Progress

Unfortunately, while this is possible today it is lacking currently in proper Redwood documentation. All the material are out there for those who are determined enough to piece it together but there isn't an end to end tutorial yet.

However, if you are interested in using RedwoodJS and MongoDB today and want to provide early feedback, we have a cookbook in the works along with an open issue.

Issue #840, MongoDB: create a doc or cookbook

Relevant Prisma Links

Relevant Redwood Links

Ghost • Mar 27 '20

Rust, and in special the async-std web "stack": async-h1, http-types, and tide. I finally understand so many things that I skipped using Django. Is at the same time so much "lower level" yet so much more clear to me. Or maybe because now I'm older and wiser,... nah, must be something else.

(I have less hair now tho)

ponyjackal • Mar 26 '20

Svelte and JAM stack

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Mar 27 '20

Personal:

Professional:

Data management best practices
R language

Louis • Mar 27 '20

I just started to tinker around with Node and how to make API requests. By now I'm comfortable with writing and understanding React code and I think it's time to make the next step towards Full Stack Development :)

Ryhazerus • Mar 27 '20

Rust, gRPC, and Google's Protobuf. Building a generic sensing platform that can support any sensor technology using any protocol for an IoT project. Loving the contract-based system Google's Protobuf provides for gRPC. It makes working with hundreds of IoT devices MUCH simpler and standardized. Rust also makes running threads on an embedded system fantastic seeing how its thread and memory safe.

Honestly its the first time I'm actually using Rust for a real production application but so far so good, I would recommend it to anyone looking to try out a new systems programming language!

Jack Harner 🚀 • Mar 29 '20

Right now it's React and Gatsby.

Down the line it will be combining React and Gatsby to work with Headless WordPress. (Combining what I'm learning with what I already know). The speed of React & Gatsby combined with the power and familiarity of WordPress sounds pretty unstoppable to me.

My motivations for learning React are pretty much focused around getting the kind of job I want.