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Mar. 27, 2020: What did you learn this week?

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It's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.

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Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL post to give it some more exposure.

#todayilearned

Summarize a concept that is new to you.

And remember, if something you learnt was a big win for you, then you know where to drop it as well.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

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Ben Halpern

I followed this post to whip up a proof of concept I was thinking about...

First time using Electron for real. Even though I wasn't working on anything for production, it was a lot of fun to have a native app running so quickly.

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Nick Taylor

Borat saying "Great success!"

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Davyd McColl

Testing a legacy angularjs / node app, both parts (client and server) with Jest. The online documentation I found for getting Jest working with an angularjs project wasn't great, but a co-worker had done the same on another project, so she helped me get going and I added some wins of my own and now this project actually runs tests at CI before building deployment packages, which it didn't before, so I feel like a winner (:

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Nick Taylor

Sounds like some awesome knowledge that could be shared via an article. 😺

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Davyd McColl

Yeah, I've been trying to encourage my co-worker to publish an article about it here because she figured out some of the tricky bits before I got there - she deserves a reasonable amount of kudos. Perhaps I should offer to co-author something - I don't think she blogs yet, so perhaps it's a bit intimidating?

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Vaibhav Khulbe • Edited

I got to know more about styled-components, styled-theming and localStorage this week for my React project.

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Vaibhav Khulbe

hahah, yesss!

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Heiker • Edited

I found out about task the task runner and also minify an asset minifier.

In other news, I learned about how themes work in zola (a static site generator).

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Shwetha Jayaraj

made a twitch (@shwethaaa ) and #todayilearned how to start a twitch stream & follow livecoders to see practices they use when programming daily. as with dev.to, always useful to have a community :D
Also figured out how to get my webhooks working in discord finally. #smallvictory

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Vikram Sahu • Edited

I have learned to post blogs on dev.to by learning javascript and I can say it feels awesome.
amazing

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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Ishmeet Bindra

Started learning Docker

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ZakariaTalhami

I learned to use and work with socket.io, which will help me create a real time dasboard for data from my sensor network.

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Audiophile • Edited

Started learning Next js and Vue js(as a React Dev)...Next js docs are a joy to work with, and Vue is so awesome in its simplicity!

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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Anatoly

I learned this week that I am re-inventing the wheel... AGAIN...

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Pigna

I have learned the limit of a webcoket server running in V8 engine

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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Bennett(he/him)

Not just this week but I have been on to some Nestjs things this whole month and it feels awesome

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Nick Taylor • Edited

Sounds like your learnings would make for a great article. 😉

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Bennett(he/him)

Oh yeah, I have been thinking about that and I am yet to get started on the article

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TheGardenMan

Learning django.Trying to build something cool in these holidays.

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Ryan (he/him)

I've was tying to learn Kafka all week and everything finally clicked on Friday! 😁 Moving on to Kafka Steams API next!

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Ben Duncan

Finally learned CSS grid... and it's great!

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Nick Taylor

Don't know if you're aware of this free course by @wesbos that Mozilla sponsored, but cssgrid.io is awesome if you haven't checked it out yet.