Courses for Front-End Web Developers

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Dax Raad, known for his strong opinions on Twitter, sat down for a chat about web dev, career moves, and building cool stuff. He's not afraid to throw some heat at popular tools like [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/), though he still helps people use it. Dax is particularly excited about local-first development, which he thinks isn't getting enough attention. He argues that sometimes the best web dev move is to step away from web dev entirely and explore other areas of programming.

When it comes to career growth, Dax encourages developers to think beyond the "web dev" label and see themselves as programmers capable of tackling any challenge. He advocates for trying out weird stuff and learning unusual languages, as these experiences can lead to unexpected opportunities. Taking smart risks in your career can open doors to awesome possibilities.

In the business world, Dax is a fan of making "asymmetric bets" - moves with low downside but huge potential upside. He applies this philosophy to his work on [SST](https://sst.dev/), reasoning that even if it fails, he'll walk away with valuable experience. He also emphasizes the importance of resisting quick payouts in favor of potentially bigger wins down the road.

Looking to the future of tech, Dax is betting on local-first development. He sees potential in getting in early on emerging technologies like [Solid.js](https://www.solidjs.com/). Building in public and making connections in new tech communities can pay off in unexpected ways.

Dax also challenges the notion of constant hyper-productivity in tech. He suggests balancing focused work with time for exploration and learning. Sometimes, he points out, what seems like a "dumb" choice (like learning a niche language) can turn out to be a smart career move in the long run.

## Good Stuff Mentioned

- [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/)
- [Vercel](https://vercel.com/)
- [SST](https://sst.dev/)
- [Elixir](https://elixir-lang.org/)
- [Solid.js](https://www.solidjs.com/)
- [RepliCache](https://replicache.dev/)
- [Linear](https://linear.app/)
- [Remix](https://remix.run/)
- [Shopify](https://www.shopify.com/)
- [React](https://react.dev/)

Developer Career Growth and Asymmetric Bets with Dax Raad

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Dev and Joel discuss React Miami conference, praising its fun atmosphere and location. They chat about React Server Components, with Dev sharing his experience building a mini framework. They talk about Vinxi, Nitro, and the unjs ecosystem as tools for creating custom frameworks. The conversation touches on Vue's popularity outside web dev circles and non-web dev conferences. They discuss the benefits of TypeScript and strongly-typed APIs. Dev mentions his upcoming talk on durable objects at [a conference in Dallas](https://x.com/DThompsonDev/status/1829674506237194456). They end by discussing WebSockets, PartyKit, and platform-specific frameworks.

## What's Good?

- [React Miami Conference](https://www.reactmiami.com/) 
- [Brenley Dueck's blog post on Simple RSC with Vinxi:](https://www.brenelz.com/posts/simple-rsc-with-vinxi/)
- [Vinxi](https://github.com/nksaraf/vinxi)
- [Nitro](https://nitro.unjs.io/guide/configuration)
- [unjs ecosystem](https://unjs.io/)
- [Solid Start](https://start.solidjs.com/)
- [TanStack Router](https://tanstack.com/router/latest) 
- [PartyKit](https://github.com/partykit/partykit) 
- [Durable Objects (Cloudflare)](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/)
- [Flightcontrol](https://www.flightcontrol.dev/) 
- [SST](https://sst.dev/)
- [OpenNext](https://open-next.js.org/)

Nitro, Vinxi, and RSCs - What's Good with Dev Agrawal

<p>Sara Vieira, developer advocate and professional maker of dumb shit, talks through why she does her weird experiments on the internet. Sometimes it is out of need, but honestly a lot of the time it is a random thing that she thinks of or something that someone says that brings up the idea, and she just has to make it. A lot of it is out of boredom, and also procrastination from other projects that she just doesn't want to do. </p><p>Sara calls herself a lazy developer, but that doesn't mean she isn't working. She finds simpler solutions that involve less coding and also avoids things that aren't necessarily interesting or fun for her to do, like CSS or writing her talk for a conference... A part of being a lazy developer is using the right tool for the job. GraphQL and Redux have an almost cult-like following, but for small apps, their solutions for state management and fetching data are complete overkill.</p><p>Netlify and Zeit's Now are great for deploying your projects, they allow you to get your unique dumb-shit out there quickly. There was this period where services were all focusing on scalability, but it wasn't easy to just throw your wacky side-projects out on the internet. </p><p>Sara is organizing the conference ReactJS Girls which will be happening in London on May 3rd, 2019. It started last year while Sara was living in London. She hosted a meetup where all the speakers would be women, but everyone was welcome to attend as a guest. Organizing it this way had multiple benefits, it acted as a filter for the dicks who wouldn't want to learn from women, and it empowered first-time speakers who'd otherwise feel imposter syndrome or fear of judgment. </p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/a63f7af2/transcript">"Making Dumb Stuff That Makes Strangers on the Internet Smile - with Sara Vieira" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://reactjsgirls.com">ReactJS Girls Conference</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/reactjsgirls?lang=en">ReactJS Girls Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://meme.iamsaravieira.com/">meme.iamsaravieira.com</a></li><li><a href="https://dan.church/">dan.church</a></li><li><a href="https://awesometalks.party/">awesometalks.party</a></li></ul><h3>Sara Vieira:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/NikkitaFTW">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://iamsaravieira.com/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/SaraVieira">GitHub</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/@nikkitaftw">Medium</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Today we are joined by Sara Vieira, a developer advocate and maker of wacky stuff on the internet. She joins us today to talk about why she makes all of her weird experiments, how being a lazy developer doesn't mean she isn't doing work, the Redux cargo cult, why you shouldn't always use GraphQL, her meetups and upcoming conference for woman speakers, and of course making people smile. 

Making Dumb Stuff That Makes Strangers on the Internet Smile with Sara Vieira

<p>Marcy Sutton is the Head of Learning at GatsbyJS, but what does that mean? One of Gatsby's core focuses is the community, and a part of that is making the experience with Gatsby as friendly as possible. A large part of making Gatsby friendly is having <i>excellent</i> documentation, so that learning and debugging experiences would be smooth. </p><p>So the learning experience is smooth but what is Gatsby's potential on the web? Marcy talks about how Gatsby has the potential to make a huge impact. Currently WordPress is powering about a third of the web, that's huge, but it has its issues. WordPress is centered around the authoring experience but the front-end experience is not good. Gatsby is looking more towards the future, it doesn't use a database, it can build out static HTML, it's accessible, and it's also democratizing the experience with a themes ecosystem. </p><p>This brings up the point that JavaScript is eating the web and it's making it more difficult for folks who've had a different intro to webdev. This is a real challenge and people are having their careers impacted, what can we do to reconcile this? The decisions made by tech teams aren't considering this when the pick the technologies that they use, they're picking tech that's going to deliver a high preformance application, where does HTML and CSS fit into this? Marcy discusses how we can bridge the gap and find ways to include people with different skill sets. </p><p>Marcy also discusses the inclusive community that she has helped build, NW Tech Women, a small group out of Bellingham WA that hosts social events, but also volunteers and pairs with non-profits to make a community impact. </p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/7c3086d2/transcript">"Heading Gatsby's Learning Experience and Bridging Gaps - with Marcy Sutton" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/NWTechWomen">NW Tech Women Twitter</a></li><li><a href="http://www.blackgirlscode.com/">Black Girls Code</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/">GatsbyJS</a></li></ul><h3>Marcy Sutton:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/marcysutton">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://marcysutton.com/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/marcysutton">GitHub</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Marcy Sutton is the Head of Learning at GatsbyJS. She discusses the van life, migrating her blog from Wordpress to Gatsby, what she does as the Head of Learning, the potential that Gatsby has as a platform, championing accessibility, static CSS versus inline CSS, how JavaScript is impacting roles and careers, and creating inclusive communities. 


Heading Gatsby's Learning Experience and Bridging Gaps with Marcy Sutton

<p>Web development is a fantastic field where people, for little to no money, can self-teach everything you need to make a career, and it's amazing, right? That doesn't mean that there isn't a time cost though, it isn't easy, but the internet has an overwhelming amount of information that you can use to teach yourself. Authors who write this free content are the life-blood of the internet and provide an invaluable service to countless people.</p><p>However, in the sea of information, it's easy for your content never to get noticed. You wrote that blog-post that killer blog-post on medium, but no-one seemed to have seen it. Where you write your content is important, there are communities like the amazing dev.to that reach a specific audience and are more focused towards engagement, but the reason why you create your content is also important. People can smell inauthenticity if you are writing your content for the sole purpose of brand-building and getting views people are going to notice. Create content that you love and that you find interesting. You don't even have to be an absolute expert to teach, writing about what you are learning helps people learn right along with you!</p><p>Learning a discipline you love profoundly is invaluable, but that doesn't mean you should turn a blind eye to other subjects. It's valuable to have a breadth of general knowledge across different disciplines and be able to have high-level conversations.</p><p>A huge part of learning is asking people good questions. When you don't ask good questions, you are doing both yourself and the person you are asking a disservice. When you are too vague about what you are missing, and you don't give enough context, it's difficult to get a clear answer, and you are putting the burden of figuring that stuff out on the person you are asking.</p><hr /><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask">Stack Overflow: How do I ask a good question?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.vuemastery.com/conferences/vueconf-us-2018/7-secret-patterns-vue-consultants-dont-want-you-to-know-chris-fritz">Chris Fritz: 7 Secret Patterns</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KREV1_2mA4">Jason Lengstorf: Cutting Work in Half</a></li></ul><h3>Emma Bostian:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/emmabostian?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/emmabostian">GitHub</a></li><li><a href="https://emmabostian.com/">Website</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Today we are joined by Emma Bostian who will speak about self-teaching, creating authentic content, what being a T-shaped developer means, how to ask good questions, and how she manages her work-life balance. 

Creating Authentic Content and Developing Yourself with Emma Bostian

<p>JavaScript fatigue is a topic that has been trending for a while now. It's easy to get overwhelmed with the constant influx of new technology, but it's also thrilling to learn the latest cool new thing! Stacey Mulcahy discusses how she embraces this deluge of technology by being a generalist, allowing her to make connections with more people than she would have if she specialized in one thing.</p><p>Stacy is a Maker, a kind of tech-based DIYer and inventor. Creativity is, of course, important for the DIY hacker, but it's essential for everyone else too. Creativity is creative problem solving, and it's something that you can train. If you aren't "working your creativity muscle," your creative skills are going to degrade. Try to push the envelope and find outlets where you can apply your creative skills!</p><p>Like a lot of people in the tech world, Joel has a box of Arduino stuff that is gathering dust somewhere. How do you get past that initial "hello world" LED blink project? Stacey recommends to immerse yourself, see what other makers are doing and find inspiration from them. Try to find something that you enjoy and find fun and see if you can do it with an Arduino. </p><p>Lastly, Stacey tells us her story of what caused her to begin teaching children technology, and how she got to where she is now. It's rewarding to celebrate people's successes and provide them with a space where they can fail safely. If there isn't a community meetup for something you enjoy in your area you have the complete ability to start one yourself and be the organizer. There are multiple platforms that help organize events. The key for your community to grow is to be consistent with it. </p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/49266475/transcript">"Being Curious and Facilitating the Success of Others - with Stacey Mulcahy" Transcript</a></p><h3>Stacy Mulcahy:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/bitchwhocodes">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="http://thebitchwhocodes.com">thebitchwhocodes.com</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Stacey Mulcahy joins us today to discuss Arduinos, cute dogs, growing your creativity, organizing a community, and facilitating the success of others. 

Being Curious and Facilitating the Success of Others with Stacey Mulcahy

<p>There's a kind of "black box" mystery that surrounds illustrators and programmers, to someone who isn't one their skills seem like a form of magic, but to someone who is these skills are just the tools that they've been learning to use through time and hard work. </p><p>Maggie is the course logo illustrator at egghead.io, and she has the challenge of turning the concepts being taught in the course into something more visually concrete. The challenge isn't necessarily the drawing, but the research that is needed to understand a topic to the point of being able to create an accurate metaphor that people who don't know what is being taught can grasp. Maggie discusses her process in research and creative thinking to get to that point.</p><p>The beginner's mindset is critical to Maggie for creating these illustrations. When someone becomes an expert in something, they tend to overlook things that have become muscle memory to them that make beginners struggle. You don't have to be an expert to teach something to someone! The problems that you ran into when learning a topic and the things that helped you wrap your head around it are still fresh in your mind and can be extremely valuable for other beginners and even those with experience. </p><p>Maggie started a site called illustrated.dev to bring visual learning perspective of web development and internet concepts. There is a lot of content out there that teaches with language, but for many people, that style of learning makes it difficult for things to click. Never be afraid to teach things that are already being taught, often it is the way that you teach that matters most. </p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/e855d7bc/transcript">"Turning Technical Concepts into Approachable Illustrated Metaphors - with Maggie Appleton" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.schoolism.com/">Schoolism</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nma.art/">New Masters Academy</a></li><li><a href="https://illustrated.dev/">Illustrated.dev</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Design-Synectics-Stimulating-Creativity/dp/0871921987">Design Synectics</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Synectics-Stimulating-Creativity/dp/0871921510/ref=pd_sim_14_1/147-9062490-5704104?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0871921510&pd_rd_r=5593d07f-6d37-11e9-9f57-c98fbdd56605&pd_rd_w=bz0Nf&pd_rd_wg=BdRmc&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=Y8M5NA27Z5PJKT9EE9F2&psc=1&refRID=Y8M5NA27Z5PJKT9EE9F2">Art Synetics</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Addiction-Design-Machine-Gambling-Vegas/dp/0691160880">Addiction by Design</a></li></ul><h3>Maggie Appleton:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/Mappletons?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="http://maggieappleton.com/">maggieappleton.com</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Today Maggie Appleton, the course illustrator at egghead.io, discusses how she became an illustrator, researching a technical topic she plans to illustrate,  accidentally becoming a web developer, and how she turns technical concepts into digestible illustrations.

Turning Technical Concepts into Approachable Illustrated Metaphors with Maggie Appleton

<p>Jen Looper, developer advocate and the founder of Vue Vixens, didn't study software development in college, she has a Ph.D. in French Literature. Her degree might seem unrelated, but it strengthened her ability to explain complex ideas as well as her overall communication abilities, skills that are essential for her role as a developer advocate. These skills also come into play in her work building the Vue Vixens community, which now has over 20+ chapters all over the world!</p><p>The workshop has been a powerful tool for growing the Vue Vixens. Jen explains how the shared experience of learning, eating, and hanging out together can build a lot of lasting connections. Vue Vixens has also branched out from workshops into also hosting meetups, the structure of which is determined by the local chapter leader to suit the needs of their particular location. </p><p>But what makes a great workshop? Minimal installation, maximum output. Codesandbox and Nativescript playground have massively cut down on the initial setup times for the Vue Vixen workshops by doing away with all of the installing and installation issues that will always come up. Jen likes to use a cute app project to make the workshop more fun and to make exploring the deeper concepts less dry. To Jen, workshops are about empowerment first and foremost. If a student can leave the workshop feeling empowered and hungry to learn they'll end up much better off than if they learned more but left feeling disinterested. </p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/b14002cc/transcript">"Building Vue Vixens With Education and Inclusiveness – With Jen Looper" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://VueVixens.org">VueVixens</a></li><li><a href="https://yomamaisa.dev/#/">yomamaisa.dev</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060589469">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</a></li><li><a href="https://www.notion.so/">Notion</a></li></ul><h3>Jen Looper:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.jenlooper.com/">jenlooper.com</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jenlooper?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/jlooper">Github</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Jen Looper, the founder of Vue Vixens, joins us today to talk about the Vue Vixens community, what makes a great workshop, how she chooses what tools to invest into for her career, and how her Ph.D. in French Literature has empowered her career in software development. 

Building Vue Vixens With Education and Inclusiveness With Jen Looper

<p>Teaching provides a learner with more information, but the information isn't the only thing that is required to teach effectively. Doing is almost just as essential as the information itself for the learner to solidify what was taught. Creating an effective learning path is challenging, and we tend to start from what we know and take it from there. Janelle challenges the tendency to start from our knowledge, and instead, we should start from where we want our learners to end up being and work backward from there, this is called <i>Backward Design</i>.</p><p>Backward design doesn't just apply to education, it applies directly to software development. As developers, it's essential that we get out of our head and start with the user.</p><p>How do you start teaching if you have no one to teach? Janelle says there are three critical components to building your audience, having an email list, providing valuable content, and consistency. If you stay genuine and provide value you'll filter out anyone who doesn't resonate with you and what you offer.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/edf78b39/transcript">"Get out of Your Head and Start with Your Users - with Janelle Allen" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24737268-badass">Badass: Making Users Awesome</a></li><li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/336248.Shambhala">Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior</a></li></ul><h3>Janelle Allen:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/janelleallen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Today we are joined by Janelle Allen, a learning designer, who talks to us about backward design, how she grew into her role, the increase in quality of online courses, the importance of contact with users, and how to grow your audience. 

Get out of Your Head and Start with Your Users with Janelle Allen

<p>Keith Peters joins us today to talk about his experiences with experimenting with code and math, the transition from Flash to Go, woodworking and blacksmithing, and getting books published.</p><p>Keith talks to us a bit about multi trochoids; they're what happens when you take a circle and roll it around something, like a spirograph. He was inspired to do this project by Sodaplay, a site back in the flash days that had stuff you could hook up to various engines.</p><p>What language did Keith use to write his multi trochoid experiments? Initially, Keith wrote it in Go, but he wanted to put it out on the web and make it interactive, so he ported it to Javascript.</p><p>Back in the 90s Keith worked with Flash, when Flash left he moved over to Javascript and using the html5 canvas. Javascript is great if you want it live on the web but for still images and animations it was a pain in the neck, so Keith tried out Rust, Python, and finally settling on Go.</p><p>Keith is into some non-coding hobbies like woodworking and knife making, Joel has even bought some of his knives. It started when Keith wanted to build an arcade cabinet, he bought tools and got into learning how to use them. Keith has found a lot of crossover with working with his hands and building things with code, both of them can be boiled down to learning a technology to create things and solve problems.</p><p>Finally, Keith explains the pros and cons of going through a publisher to get your book out. He says that self-publishing is easier than ever, but a publisher provides you with a lot of assistance with editing, marketing, artwork, and a healthy dose of pressure.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/3737ee32/transcript">"Learning and Experimenting with Physical and Digital Mediums with Keith Peters" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://bit101.github.io/lab/dailies/170117.html">Trochoid Experiments</a></li><li><a href="http://www.playingwithchaos.net/">playingwithchaos.net</a></li></ul><h3>Keith Peters:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/bit101">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/bit101">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bit-101.com/blog/">Website</a></li></ul><h3>John Lindquist:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlindquist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://johnlindquist.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Today Keith Peters walks us through his experiences with getting books published, experimenting with code and math for the last two decades, and his time spent working in physical mediums like woodworking and blacksmithing. 

Learning and Experimenting with Physical and Digital Mediums with Keith Peters

<p>What do we do when all of our needs are met when we are making seventy-five thousand plus a year, working for a company with some prestige, have a home, and don't have to worry about food. Jason Lengstorf wrestled with this after the company he was contracting with didn't have anything for him to do, but kept him around. New goals have to be set, and growth still has to happen.</p><p>Jason discovered that what he wanted was to help other people grow in their personal and professional lives. To help other people you have to have a set of skills beyond your technical skills, typically these skills would be called "soft skills," but they are often just as important as technical skills, Jason prefers to call these skills "meta" or "catalytic" skills. These are the skills used in planning, bringing people together, decision making, all of these being essential in our careers.</p><p>You don't just use these kinds of skills in a software project; they are also the tools that are used to build communities of people. Jason explains how the trick to bringing a group of people together with something is to make everyone feel invested in what they are a part of, and like they belong.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/figuring-out-what-s-next-after-your-nee/transcript">"Figuring Out What's Next after Your Needs are Met - with Jason Lengstorf" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/">GatsbyJS</a></li></ul><h3>Jason Lengstorf</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jlengstorf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://lengstorf.com/">lengstorf.com</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/jlengstorf">Github</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Figuring Out What's Next after Your Needs are Met with Jason Lengstorf

<p>J.C. Hiatt put together the conference MagnoliaJS in the town of Jackson, Missouri to help his community and combat the growing problem of brain drain in his state.</p><p>MagnoliaJS is not only for his community, but it was put together with the help of it too. J.C. put it together, publically by using Github issues, blogging, and posting about it on Twitter. The community responds well when you are genuine and trying to do something good, and bringing them in and giving them a sense of ownership is what J.C. attributes as the single most significant contributor to the conference's success.</p><p>If you have the opportunity to do something like this for your city, go for it. Bring in as many people as possible, contact your city officials, plan it publically. Technology can have a significant positive impact on a community!</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/organizing-a-conference-to-combat-brain-drain-in-his-hometown-with-jc-hiatt/transcript">"Organizing a Conference to Combat Brain Drain in His Hometown - with J.C. Hiatt" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/swyx?lang=en">Twitter - Shawn Wang</a></li></ul><h3>J.C. Hiatt</h3><ul><li><a href="https://jchiatt.com/">Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jchiatt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li></ul><h3>John Lindquist</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/johnlindquist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://egghead.io/instructors/john-lindquist">egghead.io</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/johnlindquist">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://johnlindquist.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

J.C Hiatt talks about what he did to organize the conference MagnoliaJS and why he did it to help his community. 

Organizing a Conference to Combat Brain Drain in His Hometown with J.C. Hiatt 

<p>Vue has a reputation of being the most beginner-friendly framework, but that didn't just happen by accident. The Vue CLI is an excellent example. New developers often struggle with using the terminal and remembering all the commands. The Vue CLI provides a visual interface for the developer to generate a project. By making it easier for newcomers to make Vue projects, they've reduced the barriers to entry. Beginner-friendly doesn't mean basic. Many large-scale projects use Vue.</p><p>Another example of something that fosters beginners and benefits established developers is how friendly, and inclusive the Vue community is. Natalia Tepluhina talks about gender mismatch in JavaScript and how the Vue Vixens are making efforts to make the gender ratio evener.</p><p>The Vue Vixens are using free and accessible education as the primary means of getting more women into tech. Natalia Tepluhina goes on to share her two main ideas when it comes to designing a good workshop. Stay accessible to people of all skill levels; don't assume what people know. Stick to one stack and one concept. People have a finite amount of mental resources; trying to do too much can end up just overwhelming people.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/how-vue-earns-its-beginner-friendly-reputation-with-natalia-tepluhina/transcript">"How Vue Earns Its Beginner-Friendly Reputation - with Natalia Tepluhina" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources</h3><ul><li><a href="https://vuevixens.org/">Vue Vixens</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Explorations-Instructional-Performance-Technologies/dp/144198125X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=69U55EJB4LGI&keywords=cognitive+load+theory&qid=1563586184&s=books&sprefix=cognitive+load+%2Cstripbooks%2C193&sr=1-2">Cognitive Load Theory</a></li></ul><h3>Natalia Tepluhina</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/n_tepluhina?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/NataliaTepluhina/">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://dev.to/n_tepluhina">Dev.to</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Natalia Tepluhina talks about why Vue has such a great community and gets regarded as the most beginner-friendly framework.

How Vue Earns Its Beginner-Friendly Reputation with Natalia Tepluhina

<p>You don't have to be passionate about code to have a successful career as a developer. Pariss Athena talks about how it isn't the code itself that motivates her to get better at understanding it. It's what being good at code provides that drives her.</p><p>The financial freedom code gives Athena enables her to give more to the people and communities that are important to her. Success to her is freedom and helping others find success too. She is working on the Black Tech Pipeline, a platform to bring resources and exposure to the black tech community.</p><p>What can those of us who are already established in this industry do to help underrepresented people? Athena says speak up, reach out to the community with opportunities for jobs, speaking engagements, podcasts, etc. Diversity doesn't just happen by default. Systemically we don't have a society that enables that. We have to be active and be a part of the team to make it happen.</p><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/gaining-freedom-and-helping-others-find-success-with-pariss-athena/transcript">"Gaining Freedom and Helping Others Find Success - with Pariss Athena" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources</h3><ul><li><a href="https://blacktechpipeline.substack.com/welcome">#BlackTechPipeline</a></li></ul><h3>Pariss Athena</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/parissathena?lang=en">Twitter</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Pariss Athena talks about how becoming a developer gave her freedom and the means to help others succeed. 

Gaining Freedom and Helping Others Find Success with Pariss Athena

<p>There are a few options for those trying to start a career in web development, teach yourself, join a bootcamp, or go to college. Veni chose the college route, she got a master's degree in computer science, which is awesome, but it didn't fully prepare her for web development. Computer science is primarily theory and it doesn't really prepare you for the engineering side of the job. There are only so many research positions where you'll get to applying your degree directly, the vast majority of us are facilitating commerce.</p><p>When Veni was earning her degree the competition between her peers was fierce, but in order to grow she had to let go of that competition mentality. It becomes a puzzle for you to solve instead a competition between others. Having this kind of growth mindset is key to unlocking your learning potential.</p><p>You hear about JavaScript fatigue everywhere and all the time. It's exhausting to try to keep up with the Joneses. Let go of the competition and do this for yourself. Each new technology is an interesting puzzle for you to solve.</p><p>Veni is currently working towards increasing the diversity in the tech industry. She's building a community, figuring out what people need, and building awareness of opportunities. A lot of companies are trying to improve their diversity, but a lot of them aren't aware of how to do it in the best away.</p><p>To work for diversity we need to realize that we all have biases, and figure out how to do something about them. We also need to understand that visibility and representation has a considerable impact. When you're a white male you get role models everywhere you look, people to look up to and help you realize that you too can get where they are. Underrepresented people don't have role models everywhere you look in every field you could possibly want to be in.</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/embrace-challenges-with-a-growth-mindset-with-veni-kunche/transcript">"Embrace Challenges With A Growth Mindset - With Veni Kunche" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.diversifytech.co/">Diversify Tech</a></li></ul><h3>Veni Kunche</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/venikunche?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="http://www.codewithveni.com/">codewithveni.com</a></li><li><a href="https://dev.to/venikunche">Dev.to</a></li><li><a href="https://www.diversifytech.co/">Diversify Tech</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Veni Kunche discusses computer science degrees, growth mindsets, and diversity. 

Embrace Challenges With A Growth Mindset With Veni Kunche

<p>When you are a consultant, you can't just learn a framework and then choose a place to work that uses it. Your clients will have their own needs and constraints that you're going to have to adapt to serve your client well.</p><p>The constant learning can feel like a freefall. Constantly feeling dumb is panic-inducing. There's this trough of despair in software, where you swing between feeling like a genius and then going right back to despair.</p><p>We can't just learn, but we have to learn well. It's critical to retain what you learned. Keep a developer journal, start a blog for yourself, discuss what you learned in a study group, etc. The less you have to relearn things, the less time you'll be spending in the trough of despair.</p><p>The dreaded technical interview tends to have the problem of not testing you on anything that you should be learning. You have to spend your time cramming and hoping that the interviewer gives you problems that are still fresh in your mind. A one size fits all solution doesn't work and doesn't end up being objective. Candidates should get the opportunity to show off their skill and what they already know instead of figuring out what they don't know.</p><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/escaping-the-software-trough-of-despair-with-laurie-barth/transcript">"Escaping the Software Trough of Despair - With Laurie Barth" Transcript</a></p><h3>Laurie Barth</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/laurieontech?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://laurieontech.com">Website</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Laurie Barth talks about how to retain what you learn and provides solutions to the broken interview process. 

Escaping the Software Trough of Despair With Laurie Barth

<p>Marisa Morby is a professional product manager. A common question she gets is "what's the difference between a product manager and a project manager?" There's a lot of overlap, but the difference is a product manager has to understand what needs to get done and why and be able to communicate that, and the project manager makes sure that everything stays on the rails and results in a cohesive product.</p><p>Many teams put significant of focus on user outcomes. A user outcome is the ultimate goal of the user. It's what they need to happen. If we don't know what the user needs to happen, we'll end up focusing on the wrong thing.</p><p>To figure out what a user wants user research needs to get conducted. No, you don't have to break out the lab coat. Research doesn't have to be so rigid. Just have conversations with your users and try to gain an understanding of their wants, needs, and frustrations. Make sure that you don't make assumptions about your user's needs. Ask questions that might seem painfully obvious to you</p><p>Marisa also talks about working with all-remote team. We live in an amazing day and age that allows us to do our work wherever we want, but there are challenges we have to overcome for everyone to still be productive. We have lizard brains that make it challenging to build trust with people whose faces we never see. Regular video meetings that give some space for non-work conversations are essential in building that trust with people. Meeting people in person also has a substantial positive impact on communication; it gives you a lot of context with people's mannerisms!</p><hr /><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/putting-emphasis-on-user-outcomes-with-marisa-morby/transcript">"Putting Emphasis on User Outcomes with Marisa Morby" Transcript</a></p><h3>Resources</h3><ul><li><a href="https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research">Just Enough Research</a></li></ul><h3>Marisa Morby</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/marisamorby?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://marisamorby.com/">Website</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Marisa Morby talks about what she does as a product manager.

Putting Emphasis on User Outcomes with Marisa Morby

<p>Everything is a system, and every system is a box in another larger system. It's up to managers to think in systems to make choices and understand their consequences. The manager has an obligation to their team. The decisions of managers make a tremendous impact on folk's lives.</p><p>But managers are only human.</p><p>"When we go into school there's kind of this sense that authorities are these all-knowing kind of perfect figures that are responsible for everything." The reality is that managers are humans that are dealing with their circumstances. It's easy to put all of the responsibility on them, but they need to be seen as people.</p><p>People fail. Managers aren't the only people burdened with responsibility. There's the "10x Engineer" or "The Hero Programmer," that end up with severe burnout.</p><p>Managing is an ethical and moral profession. Managers have to make ethical decisions in regards to deciding who gets promoted, fired, given a raise. How do we get justice and results? That's what makes management an elegant puzzle.</p><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/the-elegant-system-of-management-with-will-larson/transcript">"The Elegant System of Management - with Will Larson" Transcript</a></p><h3>Episode Quotes</h3><blockquote><p>"At companies that are struggling there is a lot of opportunity. And sometimes it's not easy opportunity, and it's not structured super well it's not packaged up, or you just get to have an easy entry into management."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"There's not someone teaching you there's not an easy path. You just have to go learn by trying, thinking, um going back to the principles and trying to figure out how to make it all come together."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"When we go into school there's kind of this sense that authorities are these all-knowing kind of perfect figures that are responsible for everything."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"Really any fast-growing company is the best place in the world to learn quickly about systems and how they work in reality."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"if you get good at the cold email of asking one short, crisp question that's a good question you can meet anyone."</p></blockquote><h3>Resources</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Puzzle-Systems-Engineering-Management/dp/1732265186">An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557">Thinking in Systems: A Primer</a></li><li><a href="http://www.greenhouse.io/">Greenhouse.io</a></li></ul><h3>Will Larson</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/Lethain?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://lethain.com">Website</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Will Larson talks about the moral dilemmas and decisions that managers have to make.

The Elegant System of Management with Will Larson

How many of us still almost exclusively use `console.log()` when trying to debug something? It's okay, plenty of us do it that way, but you could be saving yourself a lot of pain and suffering by using the debugger and stepping through the execution. 

There are several advantages to using a debugger, you get a tighter feedback loop, a lot more information, and it allows you to go into places you wouldn't have even thought about. 

Now debugging can take you far, but there are times when we need another human to help us. Asking questions is anxiety-inducing, "what if this is something I should already know?" "am I being annoying?" "am I interrupting them from doing something important?" 

The key is to remember that there is no such thing as a dumb question, but there are questions that haven't been thoroughly vetted. Stack overflow has an [excellent wiki](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) on asking good questions. Learn how to form good questions, and everything will end up being okay!

Justin is doing good work in bringing awareness to Atlanta's rich culture and advocating for people who are under-represented in technology. Be sure to check out the [Render(ATL)](https://www.renderatl.com/) conference upcoming in May 2020.

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### Transcript
["Learn To Debug Properly And Ask Better Questions With Justin Samuels" Transcript](https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/learn-to-debug-properly-and-ask-better-questions-with-justin-samuels/transcript)

### Quotes
> "It's a good combo though. Computers, business, and teaching people, and passing on information. I think it's a trifecta, right? It's a killer combo."

> "But I loved React, because I already knew JavaScript. So it was like, 'Hey, here's some tools that you could just wrap around your JavaScript and you could make things better.'"

> "I feel like when you use the debugger, that invokes a curiosity. It allows you to go into places that you wouldn't have even thought about. It also gives you a sneak peek of what's going on underneath the hood."

> "So you'll always have three lanes, I call it. You either know what you do know, or you know what you don't know, or you don't know what you don't know. And I'm like, 'Okay, I could get past the first two.' But the last category of you don't really know what you don't know is scary all the time."

> "You have to learn how to formulate a question that engineers are going to be able to be like, 'Oh, here's your problem.'"

### Resources
- [The Power of Habit](https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/081298160X)
- [Atomic Habits](https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits)
- [Render(ATL)](https://t.co/KJGSTBeqVM?amp=1)
- [Stack Overflow: How do I ask a good question?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask)

### Justin Samuels
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ThugDebugger)
- [Dev.to](https://dev.to/thugdebugger)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinsamuels/)
- [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/users/4110635/justin-e-samuels)

### Joel Hooks
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/jhooks)
- [Website](https://joelhooks.com/)

Justin Samuels talks switching majors, debugging, asking questions, and representing Atlanta.

Learn To Debug Properly And Ask Better Questions With Justin Samuels

To executives, new features mean more money, but even if you had terrific features, they wouldn't be worth a thing if they only worked half the time. Reliability isn't something you want to put off until later after the project has grown, it will save you a lot of time and money if you factor it in from day one. Everyone has adapted to a speedy internet these days. Users leave if the site is taking more than even a few seconds to load. 

It's easy to get overly focused on features while losing the context of the overall application. The first and foremost solid you can do future you is to keep things as simple as possible. Never get overly complicated, that's where you run into scaling troubles. Complexity also causes significant headaches when bringing other people on. 

In addition to keeping complexity low, make sure documentation gets written and that it's kept up to date. A solution that Molly's company has put in place to keep the docs fresh is to give every document an expiration date three months out from when it gets written. When someone references the docs, they check if it's past the expiration date, if it is they go through and make sure that the information is still current, and afterward extending the expiration date another three months.  

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### Transcript
["Build Performant And Reliable Applications With Molly Struve" Transcript](https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/build-performant-and-reliable-applications-with-molly-struve/transcript)

### Quotes
> "To me, a site reliability engineer is a software engineer, but with their focus on performance and reliability."

> "So, it's a dev, but they've got a little bit of something extra in there that just helps them kind of step back and look at the whole system and ensure that it's performing and reliable."

> "There's only so much you can just attribute to the black box. Sometimes you actually got to go in there and figure out what's going on."

> "You can have all the great features in the world, but if they're only working 50% of the time, none of your clients are going to be happy."

> "A lot of times, if you're just focused on just the feature you're building, you'll lose the context of the overall application."


### Resources
- [Making On-Call Not Suck](https://dev.to/molly_struve/making-on-call-not-suck-490)
- [What It Means To Be A Site Reliability Engineer](https://dev.to/molly_struve/what-it-means-to-be-a-site-reliability-engineer-32ki)
- [Scaling Elasticsearch Part 1: How to Speed Up Indexing](https://dev.to/molly_struve/scaling-elasticsearch-part-1-how-to-speed-up-indexing-2pel)
- [Scaling Elasticsearch Part 2: How to Speed Up Search](https://dev.to/molly_struve/scaling-elasticsearch-part-2-how-to-speed-up-search-53of)


### Molly Struve
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/molly_struve)
- [Github](https://github.com/mstruve)
- [Dev.to](https://dev.to/molly_struve)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollystruve/)
- [Website](https://www.mollystruve.com/)

### Joel Hooks
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/jhooks)
- [Website](https://joelhooks.com/)

Molly Struve shares her approach to ensuring that projects are performant, reliable, and well-documented.

Build Performant And Reliable Applications With Molly Struve

<p>Making technical decisions for your business when you don't have experience as a developer is difficult. It's scary to make decisions that you don't know the consequences of.</p><p>Tracy got into development when at one point she had the freetime to take an HTML, CSS, JavaScript course online. Becoming a developer taught Tracy the importance of grouping her meetings so she could have uninterrupted blocks of time to get work done. Before, she didn't realize the impact that breaking people's flow had.</p><p>A lot of people are trying to become developers. One of the more common routes now is attending a bootcamp. But be careful, not all bootcamps are equal. Graduates from some bootcamps struggle a lot harder in the hiring process than others. Make sure that you do your research and talk to people who graduated from the program.</p><h3>Transcript</h3><p><a href="https://egghead.simplecast.com/episodes/out-with-the-10x-developer-and-in-with-the-10x-mentor-with-tracy-lee/transcript">"Out With The 10x Developer And In With The 10x Mentor With Tracy Lee" Transcript</a></p><h3>Quotes</h3><blockquote><p>"I feel like if you're not technical, it's almost like you're scared to make the decision"</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>". . . I group together all my meetings, because I used to be like, 'Oh, co-founder, you're not in a meeting. Oh, he's probably bored. Oh, he's not involved.' Like, my god, I was just killing his productivity the entire time."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"You should be really promoting the idea of a 10x mentor. So, helping everybody within an organization, within a development organization, should be helping facilitate each other to be successful."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"But unless you keep doing the same thing, the thing over and over and over again, and getting really good at it, then you're never going to actually grow"</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>". . . do your research and find people that have gone to the bootcamp, and ask them directly what their experience was"</p></blockquote><h3>Resources</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows-ebook/dp/B005VSRFEA">Thinking in Systems: A Primer</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building-ebook/dp/B00DQ845EA">The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers</a></li></ul><h3>Tracy Lee</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/ladyleet?lang=en">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/ladyleet">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://www.thisdot.co/labs">Website</a></li></ul><h3>Joel Hooks</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhooks">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://joelhooks.com/">Website</a></li></ul>

Tracy Lee talks about the value of learning to code as an entrepreneur, mentorship, code bootcamps, and how to break into the industry. 

Out With The 10x Developer And In With The 10x Mentor With Tracy Lee

While running `zod` schema validation agains domain-rich objects, the error message saying that _a string is not a number_ might not be really useful.

Especially, when you need to provide a meaningful feeback to the user, e.g. after they have submitted a form with lots of data.

`zod` allows to customize messages on a very granular level. We can also extract repeatable customization to `zod` error maps.

Finally, in order to process an error message further (e.g. display it to the user), we need to handle the `zod` validation errors effectively. Especially, when a big object validation has failed and we could receive a handful of errors.

That's what we learn in this lesson. 🔥

Customize zod Error Messages and Handle zod Errors Effectively

customize zod validation messages, customize zod schema property messages, reuse error maps across different schemas, navigate through zod error objects

You might want to run `zod` schema checks in different styles.

Sometimes you prefer to conditionally throw the error - that's what `parse` does. But another time you'd prefer to receive a `boolean` property that determines whether the validation was successful or not - and perform further actions accordingly.

Additionally, the error-throwing API of `parse` works extremely well with [TypeScript assertion functions](https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-3-7.html#assertion-functions). Their combination is just... perfect! 👌

That's what we learn in this lesson.

Use parse and safeParse Runtime Type-checks with zod

use zod parse function to conditionally throw ZodError, use zod safeParse to get a boolean value and run typescript type guard over success property

In this lesson we learn that TypeScript cannot guarantee correct shapes of responses. That's due to TS performing checks in compile-time, while the response will be availbale in runtime - when TS doesn't exist anymore.

In some situations, such as HTTP requests, runtime type checks such as `zod` are essential for providing quick feedback around data-related errors.

Understand where are the possible mistakes to make while using TypeScript with HTTP calls. Use `fetch` and `axios` along with `zod` schema checks.

Also, note that similar mistakes or mistakes could happen while using web storage (e.g. `localStorage`)

Validate HTTP API Response with zod, fetch and axios

use zod as an HTTP response validation tool along with fetch and axios in order to make sure that the response has expected data structure

In this lesson we learn that the `zod` schemas become the single source of truth.

We shall not update TypeScript types manually, since they are generated automatically from the schema.

Same with validation functions.

Whenever the schema changes, all the rest will update accordingly. It's an important mind shift.

Treat zod Schemas as Single Source of Truth

Zod Schemas are the single source of truth for both typescript types, and interfaces - and runtime validation functions. Schemas should be updated first.

`zod` is powerful, but writing the schemas manually for existing JSON objects, especially big ones, can be time-consuming.

But that's what `quicktype` is for! You can get 80% work done instantly! 🥳

Depending on your need - whether you want to automate the process, or do it just one time, you can:
- use an online app
- use an IDE extension
- run a CLI script
- generate a script to be executed within CI/CD environment/tooling

And this is what we learn in this lesson! 🔥🔥🔥

Get started with zod quickly!

Generate zod Schemas Automatically using Quicktype App, Extensions and Scripts

Use quicktype app, extension or scripts to automatically generate zod schemas from existing json files. Save time and get started with zod quickly!

`zod` is a powerful library allowing to run runtime type-checks.

It's complementary to TypeScript, which does type checks in compile time.

In this lesson we create few schemas that represent primitive type values, along with `zod` utilities which make these more precise. We also create object schemas and nest one inside another.

All schemas are being validated against example values. We analyze how to interpret error messages in case of failures.

Perform Runtime Type-checks on Primitives and Objects with zod

Create zod schemas to validate primitive type and object type values in runtime. Analyze the errors to see how a value doesn't correspond to schema expectations


Using Cursor Chat, you can easily reference an entire directory of files and ask it to generate anything based on those files. This opens up the possibility of using your current code as a reference guide to create new code that follows existing patterns. With this approach, the result can be a polished prompt you can use with any AI to generate consistent and reliable output.

Focus less on crafting the perfect prompt upfront - what matters most is testing and iterating based on the AI's responses. The more results you see from the prompt, the more you can reinforce the good results and prune out the bad results until your prompt is polished enough that you can rely on the prompt to give you consistent quality results.


Create AI Prompts Based on a Directory of Files


With Cursor's "Composer" feature, you can select and entire directory and make changes to every file. This video walks through the process of selecting a folder and refactoring all the files from JavaScript to TypeScript. It also demonstrates other tips around generating terminal commands and customizing your main Cursor "Rules for AI".


Run an AI Refactor on Every File in a Directory with Cursor


This lesson breaks down the concept of asynchronous iterators and generators in JavaScript. Using the Node.js glob function as a practical example, you'll learn how Array.fromAsync facilitates the creation of arrays from asynchronous iterables and how generators can improve performance in file processing tasks.

Efficient File Processing in Node.js with Async Generators and Array.fromAsync

Learn the concept of asynchronous iterators and generators in JavaScript and Node.js Array.fromAsync


With the introduction of Svelte 5, the Svelte team has created a CLI, `sv`, that unifies all the tasks that previously spread across a handful of CLIS (create, add plugins, and migrate).

This lesson will create a Svelte project using the new `sv` CLI and build a counter component to showcase the new `$state`, `$derived`, and `$effect` runes that ship with the new version.



Get Started with Svelte 5 using the sv CLI

You'll create a SvelteKit project using the sv CLI and build a counter component showcasing Svelte $state, $derived, and $effect runes.

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