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Michael Currin • Edited

Also its super to hear the main part of your post on life about React adding inspiration back to coding. If you find that lull creeping in again, be sure to reach out to a mentor you spend time with (they don't even have to be a coder) and to go meet up events and find real projects to build that challenge you and that matter to you.

I read online that people get bored of tutorials and forget what they learn so solving challenges keeps you sharp. Ask your friends if they have an idea like a band name generator or Instagram but for dogs or something like that and it will encourage you to keep digging into React or find something to build using Vue or maybe Express and SQL etc and find a theme or CSS styles. Treat your friends like a customer making a request with requirements and see how you can meet their need and collaborate with them to make it useful and fun.

If you want a free easy way to spin up a React website, I made a template which deploys to GH pages!

Hope you can use it.

github.com/MichaelCurrin/react-cre...

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nightcoder

Mike!!! thank you so much for your message!! šŸ‘ŠšŸ¾ šŸ¤“ ā¤ļø
just seeing it now! (i thought i would receive notifications from dev.to if somebody comments but i didn'tšŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø)
it's awesome and super encouraging šŸš€ to read that!
and you're right, i'll know what to do in case of feeling low again etc... but don;t know why, i feel like it won't happen the same way again! well let's hope haha!

Thank you very much for the link, i'll check it out! very interesting to see/learn how you did it!šŸ¤“šŸ‘ŒšŸ¾

  • thanks a lot for the markdown tip, i'll try it now!
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Michael Currin

Thanks for your response.

The trick for me is to not learning the language the goal but solving a problem is the goal. Whether its automation or a website or a game or a blog. The syntax and the tools is a way to get there.

It you are stuck with a beginner problems or complicated problems you'll feel bored or lost so find something at the right level to push yourself. And build something for yourself or someone else to use. Show someone your app or code and you'll want to make it better and make more things.