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My experience with React JS

vikrantaroraa — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:16:10 +0000

I started learning web development in March 2020. It was mainly because of our HOD that i have been able to become a web developer. He gave me a project that was completely customised and asked me to make a web app. And although it seemed like an impossible task to me in the beginning i was able to make that project by semester end.

And although i liked learning web development a lot, the backend somehow always interested me more. I was always more into the back end development rather than front end. It was not until i was introduced to React that i fell in love with front end development.

After i completed my semester project, one of my juniors told me how amazing this new framework was. And since the day i have started learning React i have officially started to like front end development like never before.

React gave me a power over the front end that full stack flask never did (which i used to do before) and to say that React is Good would be an understatement! React is great! Since the day i have started learning react i have never gone back to doing the full stack flask again.

Using React i was able to make apps like youtube-clone and spotify-clone so easily that i really wonder if it would have been that easy to make with flask. Now i intend to use React for all my front-end stuff and for all other apps that i will be making in future. In the end all i can say is React is awesome and you must try it once.

Failures are blessings in disguise

vikrantaroraa — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 17:57:21 +0000

I am not a motivational speaker! But i say this because i have experienced it myself. I completed my graduation this year but i was unable to get a job. And for the most part i can say that it is my mistake. I did not go to off campus placement drives but my friends did. And guess what, most of them got placed through those drives. And by the time i graduated i had a degree but not a job!

And ever since i came back home i applied for a lot of jobs but could not get any decent one. Reason being the fact that most of the companies today are looking to hire experienced programmers, someone who has worked in the company for at least 2 years. And most of the companies hiring freshers are done hiring during the March-April period.

Now let me tell you the good thing that came out it. One day one of my friends told me about the job challange started by Tanay Pratap Sir. This job challenge required anyone with programming knowledge to submit 5 projects, 3 Blogs (Mandatory) and 2 videos (Not Mandatory). And as soon as i came to know about it, i started preparing for it.

If i had been hired as a fresher by one the companies like Cognizant or TCS then i would have gotten busy with their regressive training schedule and i would have never tried to make apps like youtube-clone and spotify-clone that i have made recently as a part of the challange. Also i would have never even thought of writing a blog either.Because of this job challange i have grown a lot as a developer but this would never have happened if i had got a job earlier.

My Programming Journey...

vikrantaroraa — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 17:07:19 +0000

So, I am a web developer. And now you might be thinking- "what is so special about it?". Well, we will get there. As i said, i am a web developer, but i was not one before March 2020. When i took admission in B.Tech in 2016, just like every I.T. Student i also came to college with the hopes of joining Google one day! But being one of the class toppers, which i always was, i was always more focused on grasping up bookish knowledge than working on my tech skills.

Sometimes, i used to visit some of my juniors in hostel who were very good in web development. And whenever i saw them making those wonderful apps, i always wished if i could make such apps. I even tried to learn web development my self. But i could not! I guess my approach was wrong, always! I used to download tutorials from youtube about making apps in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and then i used to blindly follow that tutorial. And just like always the code in tutorials worked fine but mine always had some errors which i could not solve due to lack of knowledge. And, eventually i used to give up. And just like that 7 semesters passed.

In our last semester our major project was under our HOD and he, as we had seen since the first year of our college, was very strict when it came to project assessment. In my last semester he asked to make an inventory management system. This was a completely customized application which was supposed to have all the features that our HOD wanted for the inventory management system of our department. Basically, he asked me create a web application that could solve the problem of inventory management in our department, an app that could could digitalize the entire process.

And while he was telling me the specifications and features which that app was suppossed to have, only one thing was going through my mind. And that was : "I am gonna fail my last semester project"
My HOD had already made me repeat the entire project in 7th semester because it was not made up to the mark.

Nevertheless, i came back to my room and after thinking about everything for about one day, i decided that no matter what happens, i am gonna deliver such a great project this time that my HOD will always remember about it. That I was one student who delivered the best project. As soon soon as was done deciding, i called one of my juniors(who was very good in web development) and asked him when will he be returning back to hostel. He told me that he will be back with next 4 days(i.e. by 18 March 2020).

And as soon as he was back, i told him that i want to learn web development and because was always keen on teaching others he said that he will help me along the way. And then he started teaching me Flask every day from then. A few days later lock down happened(i.e on 22 March 2020, India). And my reason for writing about lock down is only that because of lock down i got enough time to learn entire front end and back end web development. Because of lock down the classes and everything came to a halt and i got enough time to develop those skills that were necessary for making that app.

I worked on my project during the entire lock down. And by the time colleges reopened i was done making the project. I showed my project to my HOD and not only did he like my web application but also he praised me a lot for that app and even enquired where i took the images from.I had taken images from Undraw and a few such sites but it took me a hell lot of time to find the relevent images and customize them according to my project. But in the end all my efforts finally paid off! After that project, i have learned a lot of things and currently i am doing React JS. And i aim to learn more every day!