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Build, collaborate, learn: remote developer projects showcase

Chance — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:38:04 +0000

Welcome to this remote software developer team projects showcase!

Below are team projects done by people who came together to build & learn in a Chingu Voyage.

p.s. There were so many awesome projects that we had to split this up into two articles. 😂 We'll have another showcase article coming out in the next few weeks so stay tuned.

Without further ado, let's dive in!

Health On Time

The purpose is to allow users to schedule medications on a weekly calendar view and be notified when meds are due and to notify accountability partners. (The notification system is not currently functioning)

Tech-Stack: Javascript using React on the FE. Rails on the BE.
Chingu project type: Tier 2 - Geckos
Developer(s): LEWIS#6606, KOHEI#7934, Sridevi#3925, kapre#8960, vicente#16777

Github repo

Deployed here

Toucan's Music App

Users are able to log into their Spotify app if they have an account with them or sign up to have an account. The user will be able to see their profile image as well as their top 5 tracks they listen to. This information can vary dependent on how often they listen to a particular song.

Tech-Stack: Node.js
Chingu project type: Tier 1 - Toucans
Developer(s): Uncle_Ghus#9649 , Asuka#4996 , _esscodes#5346

Github repo

Auto Loan Calculator

An app to calculate a loan with intuitive design and fast response.

Tech-Stack: Vanilla JS, CSS, HTML.
Chingu project type: Tier 1 - Toucans
Developer(s): codenametam#7807, A13XXC#9455, Velaztro#5583

Github repo

Deployed here

TECHVolunteer

TECHVolunteer is designed to connect charities/NFPs to budding developers/designers (volunteers) who can work for the charity on a specific job on an unpaid basis.

Tech-Stack: - React v17.0.1 - NextJS v10.0.8 - Chakra UI v1 - Mongoose v5.11.19 - Hosted on Vercel
Chingu project type: Tier 3 - Bears
Developer(s): JonHill#0880 mando #7435 gregogun #9457 Duncan #8890

Github repo

Deployed here

Mycolocate

Mycolocate (myco - mushroom, locate - locate) is an interactive map showing the locations of previously found wild, edible mushrooms.

Tech-Stack: React, node.js, MySQL
Chingu project type: Tier 2 - Geckos
Developer(s): tamsO#4276, ambersu#9455, mylesjeffery96#7889, monikat#5295

Github repo

Deployed here

Meal Planner

Meal planner helps you create a healthy eating habit no matter your constraints - be it your budget, food allergies and preferences, or monotony. We help you find healthy recipes that fit your specific needs, we keep you on course by tracking your daily calorie and macronutrient intake, and even help with your shopping.

Tech-Stack: React, Typescript, SASS
Chingu project type: Tier 2 - Geckos
Developer(s): Franklin#0639, davide_ravasi#8663, DarioB#3055

Github repo

Deployed here

DShift

We made a blazing fast shift management web app sporting a surprisingly simple interface. Built using Svelte Kit & Tailwind!

Tech-Stack: Svelte, Svelte Kit, Netlify, FaunaDB, GraphQL, urql, TailwindCSS
Chingu project type: Tier 3 - Bears
Developer(s): Fang🦁#5361, BirdyArt #3232, jidemobell #5311

Github repo

Deployed here

Wild Avatar Kingdom

This tool allows users to find an avatar based on their personality, which is determined by answering a set of behavioral questions.

Tech-Stack: HTML, JavaScript, CSS
Chingu project type: Tier 1 - Toucans
Developer(s): Marcus250, Jackie Leary

Github repo

Deployed here

The COVID-19 App

The COVID-19 App is a website that provides information on various aspects related to COVID-19 such as statistics, nearby clinics and hospitals, tips, as well as news.

Tech-Stack: HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, node.js
Chingu project type: Tier 1 - Toucans
Developer(s): Jazmand#0321, mu_yui#8223, KresnaB20 [Shanghai Ch]#5798

Github repo

Deployed here

Keybound

Create your own cheat sheet for commonly used programs.

Tech-Stack: MERN (w/ Nextjs)
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): fancyaction, ruffy, SethA, alidsel

Github repo

Deployed here

Here2There

The Here2There app recommends travel destinations based on a user's preferences of factors like cost, climate, and safety.

Tech-Stack: React, Django, PostgreSQL
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): @ kapre, @ kali, @ eddydev

Github repo

Deployed here

Skywatcher

A comprehensive weather app with a variety of supporting information.

Tech-Stack:
Chingu project type: Tier 2 - Geckos
Developer(s): @ kapre, @ kali, @ eddydev

Github repo

Deployed here

Tutor Me

TutorMe connects people to tutors based on subject topic/maybe an ability to filter through youtube videos on subject topic as well

Tech-Stack: HTML, CSS, JS, Bootstrap
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): @ ambersu @ Reneegade @ AndrewD @ achristie @ codenametam @ Hugo

Github repo

Deployed here

Wiki Trips

This app will help people find destinations to visit after the pandemic. It provides information about the destination, a Google Map, related pictures, weather for upcoming week, top attractions, best restaurants and recommended hotels.

Tech-Stack: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript
Chingu project type: Tier 1 — Toucans
Developer(s): Coding_Junkie99; Morgs; ioanat; (akiko)

Github repo

Deployed here

The Cabin Company

The Cabin Company is a vacation rental website. Find the perfect cabin for your next adventure!

Tech-Stack: React / Node.js / MongoDB
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): @ clairechristine | @ Reneegade | @ Carlos Abreu | @ alatruwe

Github repo

Deployed here

RestoFund

The project is a crowdfunding application dedicated to helping restaurants collect money donations. It allows users to either donate to or start a fundraiser.

Tech-Stack:
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): Tella#1705, Jamie#5503

Github repo

Deployed here

AsteroWatch

AsteroWatch is an application used to display data from NASA's near earth objects API as well as their Daily Image API, built with React, Javascript, and CSS. Also, it utilizes MongoDB to collect users' information for near earth objects updates.

Tech-Stack: MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js, JavaScript
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): mintedmilano#263, Deg_25#0274, Jackie Leary#8963

Github repo

Deployed here

Clean The Air

This is an educational application dedicated to informing people about the issues involved in air quality.

Tech-Stack: React
Chingu project type: Tier 2 — Geckos
Developer(s): reginam#7068 | Soyoung#7458

Github repo

Deployed here

FaceIt

The project is about a selfie app that is designed to be an entertaining game for people who like to imitate different emojis, illustrations and other faces.

Tech-Stack: React
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): Lily, Trek

Github repo

Deployed here

Book Finder

Search and find your favorite books!

Tech-Stack: HTML/SCSS/JS, node.js, webpack, babel
Chingu project type: Tier 1 - Toucans
Developer(s): Peter C, JBR, Barbora

Github repo

Deployed here

lexsell

A web application that enables every person to sell unused items to free up space and profit from it; to have an opportunity to buy things at a much lower price.*

Tech-Stack: Monggodb, Express, Reactjs Nodejs(MERN)
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): Jerryson#6587, christian lacaste#5558, Joseph Bart#4969

Github repo

E-Sagip

E-Sagip is a real-time, disaster emergency response application that aims to enable faster, and more efficient calamity reporting and government aid.

Tech-Stack: React, Node, Mapbox, Pusher, PassportJS, MongoDB Atlas
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): #4801, IvanF#3536, christian tan #0163

Github repo

Deployed here

U RESCUE ME

U RESCUE ME is a Crowdsourcing Web Application that supports many people who wanted to reach someone for help to provide informations by filling up a rescue form and visualizing it on a map.

Tech-Stack: MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js)
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): AymanC#4142, Diane#4443, Jm#1303, KiritoDF29#3652

Github repo

Deployed here

SyncedUp

Social Networking site for Developers.

Tech-Stack: MERN stack with Typescript. Babel. Jest for Unit testing.
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): SHODAN#4505 deast#7374 Laurent#2225

Github repo

Deployed here

IKO

IKO is a great way to find the best vacation spots and resorts in the Philippines through shared vacation and lodging experiences.

Tech-Stack: MERN Stack
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): Nicole_#0292, samnorton #9625, Harold #3482

Github repo

Deployed here

iMorse

It's an social network based on morse. for the moment we can register, logged and post normal post but later morse language will be added.

Tech-Stack: Vue.js for the front, django rest framework for the back. Front deployed on netlify and back api on heroku
Chingu project type: Tier 3 — Bears
Developer(s): @ MasihTak#4169 @ thesabby#1026 @ Gaëlle#2554

Github repo

Deployed here

Gain experience as a Developer: Chingu Voyage 33 teaser & how to get started

Chance — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 10:52:12 +0000

So you don’t freak out before we start

Photo by Muhammad Raufan Yusup on Unsplash

🔥 This article will help you get oriented and ready for your remote team Voyage experience! Don’t feel like you have to read & watch everything (you won’t be able to).

(Note: this article is a part of Chingu onboarding. If you haven’t applied yet you can do so at https://chingu.io/).

Welcome to the Chingu community!
Why Chingu exists and how can it help me?
Roadmap — Schedule, What’s next & how can I start?
What’s the solo project quality check?
What can I expect from a Voyage?
How can I best prepare for the Voyage?
Want to be SUPER prepared? Check these out from past members
Project showcases from past Chingu teams!

1 — Welcome to Chingu!

So, you’re going to be joining a Chingu Voyage? Here’s a welcome from the community. 😃

2—Why Chingu exists and how can it help me?

So you’ve been conditionally accepted to a Chingu Voyage?

Guess what?!

Not only are you now on a path to accelerate your learning, meet new developer friends from across the world, and gain experience working in a team, you’ll also be contributing to Chingu’s Moonshot mission of…

Helping unlock the world’s tech talent through collaboration!!!! 🚀

Since 2016, Chingu has helped people get jobs at companies like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and even Freecodecamp!

Chingu exists to help people from around the world come together to build together & reach their goals. Chingu members gain confidence in their skills, finish actual projects for their portfolio, and gain experience working in real remote teams (these are all things employers happen to love 😉 ).

Here’s a few videos of Chingu members:

3— Roadmap: What’s next & how can I start?

Step 1: Read this article

Step 2: Join the Chingu Discord server (the invite link can be found in your onboarding email).

Step 3: Answer the question: Do I have a completed solo project I can submit?

Step 4a): If yes , submit that project via the Project Submission Form (this form can be found in your Chingu onboarding email).

Step 4b): If no , the first step is to build a solo project & submit it. You can find solo projects to build here.

Step 5: Receive feedback on your project & add the Voyage launch date to your calendar!

Schedule for Voyage 33

There are 2 due dates to keep in mind when getting started.

Solo project submission due date : August 24, 2021

Voyage team launch date : August 30

Each Voyage team project lasts 6 weeks.

Note: Each month we launch a new batch of teams working on projects. This is usually around the beginning of the month.

4— What’s the solo project quality check?

In order to maintain quality of teams we require members to submit a completed solo project to be checked before being added to a team.

Some members will join Chingu and have a completed project they can submit right away. For others, this will be an opportunity to finally finish a project from start to finish! 🚀

If you don’t already have a solo project, we recommend building one of these.

Here are some quotes by past members who completed their first solo project:

I finished my first project :) that was amazing.😃

It was a great step in getting me out of tutorial hell. I didn’t realize how much this has hurt my growth until recently.

I learned SO MUCH. It made me feel certain I was able to move on to the next stage (a Voyage team project), and it allowed me to sharpen my Git skills. I am finally seeing the light at the end of the tutorial purgatory tunnel, as I had to complete the project without having a reference guiding me along. I would do a “solo project” every month tbh.

It was an important test. Now that I have successfully completed a project I feel I have what it takes to be a developer.

It really forced me to use skills that I had learned but not really applied

5 — What can I expect from a Voyage?

Be surrounded by curious builders from around the world

Chingu attracts developers & PMs from around the world. You’ll be surrounded by ambitious learners who share your goals!

Gain experience in a remote software team

People underestimate the skills involved in working in a remote software developer team. Git/Github, merge conflicts, PRs, coordinating tasks, communication nuances, etc. are all a big part of building projects. This is why employers want to hire people with experience.

Get out of your comfort zone

Let’s also not forget: you will be challenged to level-up your skills. This is not a tutorial where you can lazily follow through. Participating in a Chingu project (solo or team) is not easy.

Joining Chingu = getting out of your comfort zone.

Confidence & a shiny portfolio

You can also expect that if you show grit, you’ll come out with a shiny new project for your portfolio (some teams even build nonprofit projects or projects that create value for others).

6 — How can I prepare for this Voyage?

🔥A) Learn the basics of git/github

When we ask experienced members what the number one way to prepare for a team project is, they all say: Learn the basics of git/github!

If you’re new to git, do this→Learn Git basics in 15 minutes

Set up Git on your computer

These Git articles (written by the legendary Chingu Francesco Agnoletto) shall be your guide! Also: see Francesco’s video on git below for more.

🔥B) Learn and begin to practice these essential Soft Skills

30 principles to level-up your Soft Skills

(Note: if you learn these principles and how to apply them, they’ll change your life).

7— Want to be SUPER prepared? Check these out from past members!

Below are some articles and videos from past members. Feel free to check any of them out.

🔥Here is an app & experience walkthrough by @paulywall from Voyage-8 (shout-out to GECKOS-TEAM-07!!)

🔥 Here is another app & experience walkthrough by the wonderfully energetic @Sabrina!! (Big shout-out to Geckos-Team-04!!)

🔥 Here is another app walkthrough by @jane Lee from Voyage-8 🔥 (Shout-out to Bears-team-12!!)

🔥 Francesco Agnoletto on how to use Git/Github in a team setting

🔥@oliver & @Dan, on Pair-Programming Tips (& a mini Demo)

— Ben Kandelaars on his experience/team workflow in a Voyage (they reverse-engineered Airbnb!)

🔥Vannya, on being a Project Manager and Team Developer

— Van Tabbert on the importance of building Momentum in remote teams.

https://medium.com/media/9e5dc5d48802c399b994fade793aa073/href

🔥

ziggysauce article on his Voyage team experience

Also, here is an article he wrote after he got a job!

🔥

Sarah Schneider on her experience in a Voyage team:

Six things I learned in six weeks on a Chingu Voyage Build2Learn project

🔥

Eun Park’s article on her experience in a Voyage team:

Stress and insecurity: a newbie’s first remote dev team experience

🔥

Matthew Burfield on his code adventure

How I got a mid-level front end developer role in just 8 months

🎆 If you get any of these 5 Chingus on your team, you just hit the remote dev lottery

8 — Past Project Showcases

Thousands of developers, designers and PMs from 140+ of the world’s countries have come together to build. Here are some project showcase articles.

🚀 To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time

🚀 Project Showcase — Yes, 50+ more code projects from hungry learners leveling up their skills!

🚀 Let’s Build-to-Learn — 250+ projects from coders around the world

🚀 Chingu Mini Project Showcase — 106 developer projects from people around the world

🚀 Build, hack, learn: 230+ developer projects from the Chingu cohorts

🚀 Say no to tutorial purgatory

🚀 One project at a time, we build to learn

🚀 Never stop building

🚀 Build, hack, learn: 50+ remote developer projects from the Chingu cohorts to start your day off right

🚀 The Winter Chingu Project Showcase

🚀 The Fall Chingu Project Showcase

🚀 The Spring/Summer Chingu Project Showcase

I CAN’T WAIT TO START!!

Chingu Weekly Update vol. 133

Chance — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:08:02 +0000

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

Shout-outs & Showcases

🔈 Calling anyone who wants to participate in the Beta of a new program we’re working on: an accountability program for self-taught developers to finish projects.

If you are interested to learn more, try it out or provide feedback, please sign-up here and I’ll reach out with more information.😊

🔥 Congratulations @andrew on your acceptance to the University of London BSc Computer Science Program!!!

🔥 Reminder: Voyage 28 will be starting on March 1st!

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

Overheard in Chingu

I love commits like those. I once saw a commit titled “I’m sorry” for some super hacky / wonky solution at work. It got replaced a few weeks later with “Cheered up sorry code”

my shirt is finally shipped

I got mine too few weeks ago. I got the white one. They should try making with some other colors.

Recently left my job as the sole front-end developer (also managing a large chunk of middleware in Node), and was hoping my boss would hire somebody at least mid-level to take my place. He hired a junior straight out of bootcamp. Think the company and project risks going under now because of greed or lack of funding. Seen this happen at so many Startups, where they try to keep hiring juniors as codebase gets larger and more complicated. New hire seems cool and is happy to be there but feel a bit bad about it. Their success is my success in a way as you never want a company to go under when you leave. Anyway, just venting and saying know what you are going into when applying for a junior role and don’t feel bad if it seems you are overwhelmed b/c it likely is the employer asking too much rather than you not being able to deliver.

I like watching science related content and space/time come up quite a bit. Imagine a timeline, you see out into the future. Whatever you are struggling with, your future self has already dealt with it. Future you has learned whatever it is. I use this mindset when I’m struggling with something (usually school related) and it helps me relax and not worry so much. Hope it helps you too

i got advice from my mum on this. she said if youre trying to just stay informed, then focus on what affects your life and your immediate community. Its hard worrying about all of the worlds problems

only issue I have since big sur is my HDMI cable. whenever something touches it by accident or I move my laptop, it’s blacking out the screen and if I manage to touch twice within a short amount of time, the mac crashes but besides all good

are you telling us your promotion and Jeff stepping down as Amazon CEO is a coincidence?

hehe hey there btw I found a way for anyone who was dying of the cliffhanger

Resource of the Week

From @zumdewald :

“This one falls under ‘treasure’ … for sure:”

NES.css

https://medium.com/media/24f57a783d0a91b0f331f2e4df4bf472/href

Quotes to Go

“If you’re already a front-end developer, well, pretend you’re also wearing a pirate hat.” — Ethan Marcotte

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

Chingu Weekly Update vol 132

Chance — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 11:12:11 +0000

Chingu Weekly Update vol. 132

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 Voyage 27 starts today!!!

🔥 Congratulations @marie on getting a React Front-end developer job!!!

https://medium.com/media/a7dc1fe7b15cf7aea65e54ec902e3a64/href

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

Overheard in Chingu

There’s only one Chingu Bot and that’s @Trion — Code for good

I left my job recently due to “burn out” but have a different perspective on it. I think burn out is good, in some ways. It essentially is your brain telling your body that “what you are doing isn’t rewarding” whether because the work is too hard or the rewards are too little or both. Many devs work on their own projects, working incredible hours and dealing with massive stress, but power through it because it’s so rewarding to build something from passion and creativity. I don’t think things are black-and-white. All work takes up energy -> adds stress. Most important thing is: Are you growing (in finances/skills/anything) and do you feel your time invested is worth it? Just my two cents.

I never really hang up laundry. My laundry machine has a closet-ready setting 8) less work. Laziness wtf

I like doing laundry actually. its relaxing & clean and smells good

WHAT!!!!!

self-evaluation and coworker-evaluation in our company in the moment. couple forms and spreadsheets

including professional development during 2020. took me like 3 hours to fill everything out

Reminds me, we’re supposed to have this individual status-talk once a year at work.. to see how we progress. Next one is next week.

Wut. We have meetings with our ceo every other month 👀

I used to be a dev. Now I’m consultant too 😞

I used to work with Cinema4D and After Effects about a decade ago so there’s a lot of similarites

Resources of the Week

Why Burnouts Should Not Be Ignored

(Also, see above in Overheard in Chingu for another perspective from this article on burnout)

Quotes to Go

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

Chingu Weekly Update Vol. 131

Chance — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 13:01:43 +0000

Photo by Anthony Da Cruz on Unsplash

Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 Congratulations @thinh on getting an Angular Developer job offer!!

🔥 Congratulations @Soren on landing a new Developer job!

https://medium.com/media/1efbe0a1901ea565e4a75114769960d7/href

🔥 Scott Pence is starting a newsletter, and I highly recommend signing up. He is the kind of person who energizes you to do and be more by virtue of his learning adventures and witnessing how active he is.

I remember when Scott joined Chingu a few years ago. His industriousness reminded me of the wonderful Florin Pop (and for those who know Florin, you know that is big compliment).

You can signup for the newsletter here.

🔥 Throwback project: Here is a past team project by jffy, Fabien, Liviu! They built a Spotify clone.

🔥 Reminder: Voyage 27 will be starting on February 1st, 2021!

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

Overheard in Chingu

but I have greek tomatoes and “kefalotiri” (hard goat cheese) which makes it totally Greek

lol he averted disaster this time

Whatever details. Who cares about details. We’re family

i dont think i will ever use an android

learning how Chingu is working (I’m new here) and figuring out if there’s enough time remaining to complete a solo project I guess I don’t need sleep anyways!

Reminds me of my days in the south and now I want some gumbo

There we go. I now officially sent a letter of resignation to my current job, and signed the contract for the new one.

I’m going to be super nervous / anxious until the trial period is over at the new job, but I guess that’s a part of it all

I have my spirits up and I have energy today, so I’m confident I’ll be more productive than…yesterday

is that different from the italian variety there?

Good day, fellows

I’m so happy happy. worked on a couple bugs with front end lead over past weeks, well styling mostly but whatever. all released now

Dinner anywhere makes me hungry (or breakfast or lunch too)

Right now I’m in a position where the amount of work changes a lot (ex. I think I had like 2–3 days of work in the last month) .. so, yeah

I’ll speak to voice coach about getting more tone in my voice

ill try got an idea on what i should add it to

with create-react-app sometimes you dont need run

I can sue for everything in America, right? .. I’m sure it’ll work!

Resources of the Week

Shared by @lily :

“I wish I had this to read sooner, super neat typescript tricks, many of them will mean your typescript auto adapts as you code”:

TypeScript: Low maintenance types

Quotes to Go

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

Chingu Weekly Update Vol. 130

Chance — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:06:23 +0000

Photo by Alizée Baudez on Unsplash

Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 Definitely worth checking this article called A Simple Approach To Using Console.log For Debugging by @jmwebdev!

“Some people scoff at the console.log, some people — present company included — cherish the simple method. Here’s an easy way to use it to your advantage on your front-end.”

🔥 Scott Pence, a former Chingu member, wrote this article on Zsh and Oh My Zsh!

🔥 Reminder: Voyage 27 will be starting on February 1st, 2021!

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

Overheard in Chingu

Hi! Are there any TypeScript gurus available to answer a couple questions about using TypeScript with Redux?

Want to melt your brain a bit more? Hit cmd + opt + i on Mac or I guess alt + opt + i on PC ....And if you want a great laugh check the console tab after you do

love feta and coffee not sure what the second thing is but i’m sure its lovely

Today’s Roundtable is going to be an interesting experiment. I’m working hard to resist the urge to read up on GraphQL Server so it’s more real life today. We’ll have plenty of mistakes to learn from

Are changus the cousins of chingus

Yesterday actually, I learned that GitHub has a cli and it’s way more intuitive than git commands

That was the second issue we were having. We got the context to work but when verifying the order existed before saving Entity was ‘double tracking’

I would never use this unless backed into a corner lol

That’s job security…you’re the only one that knows how to fix that bug lol

Ironically other people fixed them, I just had to review their PR (edited)

The real TIL: always escape anything name related.

TIL…I can’t live without git reset --hard HEAD^

I’ve used that so many times lol

you didn’t know Quokkas? the cutest animals there are?

You can’t triple stamp a double stamp, Lloyd!

https://medium.com/media/bd9af04b31abf9a07af9dc25846c7726/href

Resource of the Week

Shout-out to Xarri Jorge for sharing this great article on React Router concepts:

Must know concepts of React Router

Quotes to Go

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

Chingu Weekly Update Vol. 129

Chance — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:55:46 +0000

Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash

Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 🔥CONGRATULATIONS Kodigo students on completing your projects and having a successful Demo Day event. Can’t wait to showcase these projects!

🔥 Big shout out to @masihtak who led a 2-part roundtable presentation on CyberSecurity last week!

Credit: MasihTak

💻 Also a (late) shout-out to @silentkdev & @zumdewald for their pair programming session converting an existing Express/NodeJS app to Next!

🔥 Voyage 27 will be starting on February 1st, 2021!

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

Overheard in Chingu

let me know when that PR is ready or if you need anything to help with that. I’m excited to get in there and re-factor them quiz pages!

I approved your Layout change. I tried to find something small to complain about, but it looks good

https://medium.com/media/b64ba5bc00533f3816bc24141da7b96b/href

how is the formatter not picking up these issues

How are you today?

pregnant as always

Bam, remote pregnancy. The future is amazing

well I cheated during my vacation — I dared working on my solo project(s). they might never forgive me tehehehe

omg omg omg. Backend started basket on backend. That means I’m soon doing programming again!

That sounds like Viking spy stuff ….

Where do I sign up?

“Søren, the golden goose flies at midnight.” -Royal Denmark National Military People

Sweden invasion begins!

I mean, eh.. gifts for sweden, yay!

gifts === sticks // returns true

this article is spot on. This guy mentions that too. A senior is one who provides value to the company, but more likely one who would provide more than a junior would.(edited)

this guy honestly sounds just like me haha

The criteria for becoming a senior engineer at a ten-person startup will be different from a FAANG company.

To give that perspective, there is a process for checking the right boxes as everything is data driven. When you want to go to next level, ask your manager to plan projects that take you to it. Without this you’ll keep delivering projects of same level and not be able to use that data much. Like I saw some people working too much on automating operations task but not enough features or vis versa. Once they and you think that you are ready, assessment is done. A senior from another organisation accesses your code and system designs. Then feedback is collected from many of your peers. All this goes to someone up the hierarchy, who finally approves or declines it based on data.

Resource of the Week

Javascript questions to prepare for interviews!

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

Chingu Weekly Update vol 128

Chance — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 12:11:08 +0000

Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 Voyage 27 will be starting on February 1st, 2021!

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

🔥 Voyage 26 starts today! More remote teams!

https://medium.com/media/28369b2f367218a484ff2bbecc3e8672/href

Overheard in Chingu

Code for good!

I want to play bowling with a armadillo

Seriously….it doesn’t matter as long as it’s readable, maintainable, and you are productive using it

make them to run after npm i xD

i’m gonna cheat on you guys now and work on a solo project

excuse me a solo project? WE HAVE BEEN ABANDONED BY OUR GODDESS!!!!!!!!

I want to pet a kangaroo! and a penguin

I had a pet squirrel once

React state debugging resources

I am Code for good person :p I won’t put such script

English is only written in like major train stations etc.

I approved your Layout change. I tried to find something small to complain about, but it looks good

uhohhhh i blame backend

TOMORROW DONT BREAK THE LAWS

lol watching this video about why a person moved out of Denmark after moving in. And she was like “Well, they all speak Danish”

I mean, if you live near the German border, some signs are in both German and Danish.

i had too much alcohol last december

People who struggle even get help to find a cheap apartment

Anyway, lose your job here and you get supported by government.. first 2–3 years = around $3.000

for my solo project I’m using heroku for db stuff

Resources of the Week

List of 2021 trends lists

Quotes to Go

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

Chingu Weekly Update Vol. 127

Chance — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:01:55 +0000

News, Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 Happy Festivus / holiday season! ⛄️

⏲ Vintage project: Volunteer Managerby a Chingu team (Layer, Nick, Phrixus)

AppVolunteer Manager App helps people to recruit and manage volunteers for a non-profit project.

Stack : MongoDB, Express, React / Redux, Node.js

Chingu project type : Tier 3 🐻

🔥 Trion made a new video on how to get Google’s infamous foobar challenge!

Google Foobar is a secret hiring challenge that allows people to solve levels and get selected by Google. There have been a lot of success stories of people getting into Google through Foobar.

( Note , these type of videos often get removed so it may stop working)

🔥 Related to the above: A few years ago Trion also wrote an awesome article on his experience doing the Foobar challenge. Definitely worth a read!

🔥 Reminder: Voyage 26 will be starting on January 4, 2021

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

Overheard in Chingu

What’s everyone working on today?

Working on algorithms

yesterday I was doing some big notation with recurrence and masters theorem

I don’t remember masters theorem anymore, I just use the tree method usually now but it is very good way, need to visit again

this AI is fun

How Bad Is Your Spotify?

Translation….they are at the bottom of the Bering Sea

A house

A slide

A gaming chair

And then last minute present wrapping and stocking stuffing

Christmas was a success at the K household. Although I got less than four hours of sleep

have you tried the spotify AI yet?

I’m scared of it. I’m a Ludditte

Resources of the Week

34 Must have Chrome Extensions for Web Developers and Designers

Quotes to Go

Here’s a deep cut gemstone:

Steve Jobs on how the computers are like a “bicycle of the mind”

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

Chingu Weekly Update Vol. 126

Chance — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:42:30 +0000

Photo by Israel Andrade on Unsplash

Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 Congratulations to Ed who just landed a new Developer job!!!

https://medium.com/media/660867d605f3396b59ccc8b18e157a46/href

🔥 Reminder: Voyage 26 will be starting on January 4, 2021

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

🔥 Congratulations to @Trion — Code for good on posting his newest video on YouTube!

Software Engineer vs Google’s Kids Coding Game:

Overheard in Chingu

congrats so happy for you buddy

i miss hockey so much lol

yea, live coding is intense

and hey We have all Canadian division this year!!!

I think many people struggle with Imposter Syndrome

Congratulations for presenting

I just want to start v-26 — Im rushing to it

I absolutely credit chingu with elevating my understanding of web development both quickly and properly. Great community!

I was waiting to see some algorithm kick in once you beat a certain level and it turn into a coding interview …But then … the last challenge

Yeah, but what I’m looking for is to better understand how it appears for each person, it turns out someone suffering from it from fear of judgment, some negative thought, even someone who when they are alone feel fear and surrender. what I need is when you most struggling with the Imposter Syndrome, what works for you what makes you even worst (ex, facing a challenge, code failure and etc)

On twitch to be discovered one has to stay online. That is trouble. my channel is just couple of gaming videos, so don’t know how youtube truly works. need some clickbait videos xD

I’m really eager to help Chingu, if you need help please don’t hesitate to ask me for help!

Resource of the Week

Three things I wish I knew before becoming a software developer

Quotes to Go

I was attracted to JavaScript because of the ability to just build something and share it instantly with the world. You put it on the web, and you get a URL, you can send it to anyone with a browser. That was the part that just attracted me to the web and to JavaScript.

— Evan You, Vue.js creator

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

Chingu Weekly Update Vol. 125

Chance — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:02:22 +0000

Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash

Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 Congratulations @virgilt on the new Database Analyst job!

🔥 Clifton wrote an article about his experience in a recent Chingu Voyage. Check it out here!

🔥 MasihTak recently led an in-depth & informative discussion of Vue Forms in Saturday’s Roundtable. 🚀

👶 Congratulations to RyanJT and his wife who welcomed a new baby into their family on December 4th!

🔥 This is a neat project related to visualizing Twitter account connections:

🔥 Reminder: Voyage 26 will be starting on January 4, 2021

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

Overheard in Chingu

I spoke extensively about Chingu in my interviews and the CIO was very impressed with what I accomplished here.

I’ve ran it on our master branch. 11/10 would do it again. But we only use about 40 packages

you will learn to love [key: string] in react/ts

zombie virus incoming

Actually, I thought that with docker-compose you didn’t need a dockerfile. However, in a dockerfile I would have a copy command to setup the root and that’s not something in my docker-compose.yml file. Time for more reading

So, recruiter contacts me on LinkedIn, wanting an informal interview for a position where I would be a “perfect fit”. So I agreed. During the interview, she asks why I would fit the position. So I just said “I looked at the job offer you sent, and I do fill most of your needs regarding frontend”. Then she asks about backend, and I’m honest saying “I’m a frontend developer — I don’t know backend, especially .net Core”.. and then she gets half-annoyed, asking why we’re even having this convo. She comes to me, wanting an interview for a position she thought I would fit. Then she gets annoyed when I didn’t seem super enthusiastic (due to the backend part), and don’t fit the job 100% .. Like .. what

https://medium.com/media/5fc85305b8cb794e790df078b86248e5/href

The job was like 80% frontend and 20% backend

does anyone know a neat trick to somehow force a border to vertically align a pixel higher?

I hear you there. But foggy glasses is temporary. Death is permanent

Thank you both for saving me a bunch of time. I’m not so good when it comes to recursion.

Is there any reason to prefer the ternary operator over the short-circuit evaluation in javascript?

foo ? bar() : null

vs

foo && bar()

which technologies would I use to create the infrastructure to have people log in to an app and it display content for that user? I’m trying to work on the Journal app and add that functionality now that I finished my Voyage. My guess is to connect Auth0 to a database and that would be it. Is that correct?

Hi you don’t give Auth0 access to the database, you use Auth0 to handle authentication to secure your backend API to protect those end points. You can use Auth0 for this, or implement your JSON web token auth system

Resources of the Week

101 Tips to Make You a Better Developer

Quotes to Go

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

Chingu Weekly Update Vol. 124

Chance — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:38:10 +0000

Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash

News, Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 Reminder: Voyage 26 will be starting on January 4, 2021

🔥 Friend of Chingu Florin Pop has teamed up with Brad Traversy to create a new course. Check it out here!

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

Overheard in Chingu

Hi Everyone! I’m working on some kind of program to defeat Impostor Syndrome for programmers and need some help with research. I need some volunteers who distress from Impostor Syndrome, I will credit your aid in the research if you want or you can entirely be anonymous.

I maintain that we all suck at it, it’s supposed to be hard. Coding is thinking you’re a hopeless idiot 90% of the time and a genius the other 10%.

Yea i was feeling down because I didn’t know sucking at it was part of the job

I get the feeling when I can’t solve something. Like in design reviews I couldn’t find a flaw while rest of the team finds it and starts discussing. I watch some motivational songs and youtube videos to pump up my self esteem. Then I am fine for few days.

they are different foo && bar() will return a boolean true/false, foo ? bar() : null will return either bar() when foo is truthy or null when it is falsy

Coding Goals Make an awesome product with Chingu. And finish my master’s thesis.

which technologies would I use to create the infrastructure to have people log in to an app and it display content for that user? I’m trying to work on the Journal app and add that functionality now that I finished my Voyage. My guess is to connect Auth0 to a database and that would be it. Is that correct?

hey everyone, I submitted my solo project for v26, how can I know if I my project as good enough to join the cohort? thanks very much

Coding History I haven’t been coding very long, off and on for close to a year. I know some Java, a bit of C++ and Swift, and am working on becoming proficient with HTML, CSS, and JS.

Strengths My strength is learning new technologies. I am driven to be better tomorrow than I am today.

After getting motivated by Rick Astley, I got cured

Resources of the Week

Quotes to Go

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io

DEV Community: Chance

Build, collaborate, learn: remote developer projects showcase

Health On Time

Toucan's Music App

Auto Loan Calculator

TECHVolunteer

Mycolocate

Meal Planner

DShift

Wild Avatar Kingdom

The COVID-19 App

Keybound

Here2There

Skywatcher

Tutor Me

Wiki Trips

The Cabin Company

RestoFund

AsteroWatch

Clean The Air

FaceIt

Book Finder

lexsell

E-Sagip

U RESCUE ME

SyncedUp

IKO

iMorse

Gain experience as a Developer: Chingu Voyage 33 teaser & how to get started

So you don’t freak out before we start

Table of Contents

1 — Welcome to Chingu!

2—Why Chingu exists and how can it help me?

3— Roadmap: What’s next & how can I start?

Schedule for Voyage 33

4— What’s the solo project quality check?

5 — What can I expect from a Voyage?

Be surrounded by curious builders from around the world

Gain experience in a remote software team

Get out of your comfort zone

Confidence & a shiny portfolio

6 — How can I prepare for this Voyage?

🔥A) Learn the basics of git/github

🔥B) Learn and begin to practice these essential Soft Skills

7— Want to be SUPER prepared? Check these out from past members!

Below are some articles and videos from past members. Feel free to check any of them out.

🔥 Francesco Agnoletto on how to use Git/Github in a team setting

🔥@oliver & @Dan, on Pair-Programming Tips (& a mini Demo)

— Ben Kandelaars on his experience/team workflow in a Voyage (they reverse-engineered Airbnb!)

🔥Vannya, on being a Project Manager and Team Developer

— Van Tabbert on the importance of building Momentum in remote teams.

🔥

🔥

Six things I learned in six weeks on a Chingu Voyage Build2Learn project

🔥

Stress and insecurity: a newbie’s first remote dev team experience

🔥

How I got a mid-level front end developer role in just 8 months

🎆 If you get any of these 5 Chingus on your team, you just hit the remote dev lottery

8 — Past Project Showcases

I CAN’T WAIT TO START!!

Chingu Weekly Update vol. 133

Shout-outs & Showcases

Overheard in Chingu

Resource of the Week

Quotes to Go

Before you Go!

Chingu Weekly Update vol 132

Chingu Weekly Update vol. 132

Shout-outs & Showcases

Overheard in Chingu

Resources of the Week

Quotes to Go

Before you Go!

Chingu Weekly Update Vol. 131

Shout-outs & Showcases

Overheard in Chingu

Resources of the Week

Quotes to Go

Before you Go!