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Thank you my unVanilla Fresh HackToberFest23

overFlow — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:41:57 +0000

This month I got involved in Hacktoberfest for the first time in my life.
And I never made any pr's but I met my pledge to learn. And to learn I did and I learnt big.

I have expanded my knowledge towards backend and reiterated my knowledge of async and await and promises. Which further emphasised to me the importance of sync an async concepts of coding in JS. As I now see it seems to be the backbone of node.js.

I have been pushed to learn a lot. I have elevated my understanding and broadened my knowledge in a space of a month with lessons about and from:
javascript, to node.js; to git, to repl, to linux terminal commands, to learning about package managers:yarn and npm. Dependencies, require(), export, import, and modules.
And discovering the importance of package.json and its purposes and functions etc....

So I have realised that for me to be able to make
open source contributions I also need to be knowledgeable of backend technologies as well.
After I have been finding myself in Github, looking at files and folders whose function and purpose I could barely comprehend.
Perhaps there is no working on GitHb stuff with just only my Vannila fresh JS skills.

Its been so awesome and the exploration continues on.
HactoberFest has made me more almost well rounded.Perhaps rather semi-circular.lol

Come hacktoberFest24 next year I will be a ready and enlightened orb. I will have a lot of pr's under my belt.

Thanks Hacktoberfest for helping accelarate my learning progress, by giving me a learning goal and target.Thanks to Dev.to and all the other sponsors.

Yoll been awesome!!!

Unravelling this #Hacktobersfest10 Yarn

overFlow — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 15:14:55 +0000

13 October 2023

I'm kind of now exploring packages and just going off track. And realising that most of the js in repos that I did not understand is probably node.js.
And then now I just discovered that all the .yml extensions have to do with yarn or its alternative npm and maybe others.
I have discovered package managers too inadvertently.
I have discovered dependencies.
How important are dependencies ?
How to use them and why to use them?

14 October 2023

And the rabbit hole today leads me to figure out more about package managers.
I don't remember how I got to try yarn in the place of npm. It might have been because of an article that I read that mentioned npm and yarn together a long time ago.
And today I remembered that I could not install npm. So yarn came to mind and then I went into the rabbit hole.

I am studying package managers and trying to understand their importance and trying to figure them out .
How and what importance are package managers?
And how to use them?
How to put them to use or approach when trying to get into using and understanding a repo.?

This all started because I'm trying to figure out why there is so many files with so many different extensions in the repos.

I have not learnt anything much yet at all but I am just discovering and finding shelf space in my head for all this knowledge.

I still do not understand what the dependencies do exactly and why they got to ruin my js github nooby #hacktober10 experience.

But I'm learning and I guess I'm contributing.
Thanx #HacktoberFest.

hacktoberFest10.

Forking Cloning Github

overFlow — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:25:08 +0000

Hacktober

The #hacktoberFest inclined learning continues.
I have learned just how important the ReadMe file is. And how the Code of Conduct file is also important. Especially if you are intent on making communication.
Then the licence file also. If you care to know for what type of cause you are contributing to.

I spent a good week learning git in August. I loved it. It was awesome.
It was one of the best lessons I ever had. As much as it was short. And as much as I later discovered that there is more to learn.
I learned all I think I thought I needed to learn.
I learned how to :
git --ver; git init; git ccommit; git config; git add; git clone; git branch. etc

Simple stuff but learning can also be dangerous. I learned to git fork. But I was never aware that the forked files went into my repository.
It is only now that I have realised that. I do not know how!! please do not ask me how lol!!!

But I guess we all learn. I am happy I learned this. It puts things into better perspective. lol.

On to the next one.

Git clone.

The project repository is called the upstream. And the remote is called the origin remote.
Another lesson clarified. The difference to me was not there.
There was a confusion on my part between upstream and origin remote.

So What Im doing now is making a html page. And creating a repository for it. I know there is way to upload it and that is what
I am gonna do and I wanna see how things will work.
That is one. And then two:

I guess some lessons are immersive lessons. And some deep; some shallow. But then again some immersion needs to be repeated.
Double dipped. triple dipped.

I just now looked at another blog and its got 19 steps.
I think I will be gone for while.

My Vanilla Fresh Hacktoberfest23 Pledge

overFlow — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:18:56 +0000

Greetings

I Greet you all with Hacktoberfest love and anticipation.
This is my first post and its an honour that its about a most important event; Hacktoberfest.

Background

I am a very fresh vanilla JS enthusiast.
Im soo fresh to Hacktoberfest too. I am Hacktoberfest new born. I came to learn and improve my skills.

I have been learning Git the last month albeit not as much as I think I should have. However I am looking forward to learning how to use Git and GitHub better.
So far I have been perusing ReadMe files for the first time.
It is very scary looking at folders and files not knowing how to approach and how to deal with all this mountain of files.
How do I get from start to the PR end ?
Perhaps at this Hacktoberfest end I will be able to know and that will be a useful lesson. A gift that will keep on giving symbiotically!!!
So much excitement!!!
This is something I could have done without waiting for Hacktoberfest but some times some lessons are better with expectations and better with the pressure!!
And the camaraderie of like minded people.

My Pledge

I pledge that I will be welcoming, helpful contributing and adding to world and interweb love. I am looking forward to constructing and developing. I will be Including myself and others for a better community in the learning and teaching.
I pledge to be a pillar of good, empathetic and responsible behaviour; standing for all that is moral, ethical and principled; to the best of my humanly ability.
For me; This is a greater commitment and tiny contribution towards World Peace.