Then... What the Senior Engineers do?

Joao Polo — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:03:35 +0000

Well, they code... When it's possible, of course.

But the focus is to list some required tasks, and let you find if to be a Senior is your next job of dreams.

I found mainly three types of specialization in several companies:

The Problem Solver:
- As a Senior, you'll use the experience in several projects to solve daily challenges, looking for the product and environment requirements.
The Tech Lead:
- In this case, your experience will help the product performance, team communication and technical decisions.
The Teacher:
- Some companies in a fast growth process uses the Senior experience to improve the new workers, helping a common knowledge and a culture.

There are other specializations, but it's distributed mainly in technology, people or business.

Important to know: You DON'T need to be a solver, a tech lead and a teacher at same time. But you need to try to investigate your next job about what is expected from you. Don't enter in a company only for money, it's important to be happy also.

But, if you need to grow, but to be Senior is not exactly your dream? You can prepare a new career as a Product Owner (business), an Architect (technology), a Scrum Master (people), etc. Try to identify what area move your head, and go.

Let's talk about it?

TypeScript - Enum to Array

Joao Polo — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:18:04 +0000

I'm working with some enums to ensure the typing for my models. But now, I needed to create a select box with that. I'll explain how to do that.

Considering a key/value enum, you can use the Object.entries to extract the data and create the array.

export enum EventModel {
  REPAIR = "Repair",
  PREVENT = "Prevent",
}

export const EventModelList: {
  key: string;
  value: string;
}[] = Object.entries(EventModel)
  .map(([key, value]) => ({ key, value }));

So cool... but, if you have an enum without key=value association?

In this case, you need to get the values and filter only strings:

export enum OtherModel {
  MODEL_A,
  MODEL_B
}

export const OtherModelList: {
  value: string;
}[] = Object.values(OtherModel)
  .filter((value) => typeof value === "string")
  .map((value) => ({ value: value as string }));

It was necessary because each value without an association generates two values: the key itself and the value (a number).

I created a simple sandbox to test that: codesandbox:ts-enum-as-array

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Then... What the Senior Engineers do?

TypeScript - Enum to Array