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    It is ok to not know everything web developers

    It is ok to not know everything web developers


    It is ok to not know everything

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 02:58 PM PST

    I saw alot of posts recently from people who are asking for help on what to learn next or just what to learn in general, so I figured I might remind people what the industry is really about.

    Hiring managers do not care how many technologies you know, they will look for a very specific set.
    A person who is starting right now might be thinking "oh god there is just so much to learn" and this might puth him off for good. That is a huge mistake and don't let job adverts trick you that you need to know 20 technologies so you can be employable.

    A guy joined my team few weeks ago with nothing but Python. Literally nothing else. Now, I am not saying you should go and learn Python, I am just saying it is possible and not uncommon.

    Having a good understanding of one technology is better than having 50% understanding of 2 technologies. Don't fall in to the trap that you need to learn everything at once. Start small, increment gradually. Don't be afraid to ask questions. There is no such thing as stupid question in this field, the only stupid question is the one you have been thinking about but you didnt ask. There are forums, groups and so on. You maybe alone when you are learning but you are not alone in this community.

    Once you have a good understanding of a programming language or technology, look what is the next best thing that matches your current skill set and repeat and everything from there will come naturally.

    Don't give up.

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    Very simple personal site

    Posted: 23 Jan 2020 10:35 PM PST

    Postwoman.io - An open source free, fast and beautiful alternative to Postman

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 05:17 AM PST

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    Building Resilient Frontend Architecture

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 01:08 AM PST

    Front end developer prep

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 11:43 AM PST

    I got a good offer to become a front end developer in 2 months.

    The tech is mostly Vue, but I will also be exposed to GCP, Docker, K8s, Node etc and I want to expand my knowledge on those areas as well, but specialise in front end.

    I currently do a bit of react dev at work (3 mo) but I am not confident.

    I want to build one or two projects, like a learning platform or something a bit more complex than I am used to.

    What resources are good for this? I have Front End Masters, was thinking of buying Vue School but there is not a lot of content

    What other stuff is good? E.g. for Node, GCP, docker etc (is linux academy best for cloud). It would be awesome to get certified

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    Recommend a book for learning C# and .NET framework

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 11:19 AM PST

    I am interested in learning backend web development. I am an undergrad CS student. For school projects, I've worked primarily with Java, C++, and C. Given my background, what book do you recommend? I strongly prefer a free online book, but I am willing to invest in a good inexpensive book.

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    Looking for a research lab website template

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 03:00 PM PST

    Hello!

    I'm looking for some open-source website templates for my research lab. I'm looking for something along the lines of this - http://www.scaddenlab.com/ where the sentences are short and the font is big which shows the main idea and the colours are basic but clear enough. I'm not looking for any fancy animations.

    However, I'd love to code it myself but I'm only an intern here and they want a template so that they can maintain the website after I leave. I could also make the template but that'll be a hassle for me.

    Do let me know if you have any suggestions for me! Here is a list of templates I've found online which I've rejected so that you don't have to send me the same ones:

    1. https://github.com/mpa139/allanlab
    2. https://github.com/fraser-lab/fraser-lab.github.io
    3. https://github.com/photonlines/Research-Lab-Website

    Do let me know if you have any templates in mind. Thanks in advance!

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    Can you recommend any JavaScript (ES6) tutorial in which the lecturer builds a complex project and teaches intermediate/advanced concepts? Lately I feel like my growth has halted because I've gotten relatively comfortable with my stack but I also know that I'm nowhere near as good as I want to be.

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 02:59 PM PST

    The title pretty much sums my question.

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    Permissions for contractor on EC2

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 02:55 PM PST

    I've interestingly had a hard time finding some good info on this and I'm not much of a sysadmin. I want to hire a developer to do some web development (simple wordpress/php stuff) but I don't want to grant them root access. My stack is php/nginx/mariadb on an EC2 server. What are typical permissions one gives a "guest" developer so they can do most/all of what they need for web development but can't take over my EC2 instance. Worst case I know I can jut spin up an instance for them, but wondering if there's some easy other solution.

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    A nice post from Josh Comeau on effective collaboration between developers and designers

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 05:56 AM PST

    Some Imaginary CSS

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 05:56 AM PST

    Anyone an expert on how this whole web thing works? When downloading files, does a browser do just one HTTP GET request in total, no matter the file size?

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 02:23 PM PST

    I'm trying to parse website statistics. It shows a list of requests for files and pages (I assume these are all HTTP GET requests). My question is, is it always one request per file? I know it can be multiple for HTML pages as it will download the page itself, and then send requests for each individual image on the page. But if it's downloading one huge file (10mb+) and the download is not interrupted in any way, does that still count as just one request?

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    Advice on deploying the server to a VPS (and foolproofing what I'm doing)

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 02:11 PM PST

    My first app is (almost) finished, and it's time to deploy the server to the cloud. I'm planning on using AWS Lightsail for the moment.

    There are a few things I'd like to ask just to make sure I'm not doing something wrong (or very non-optimal):

    1 ) The backend is deployed to Lightsail (Django with Redis, Celery, Gunicorn, Nginx)

    2) Can I store some databases on the Lightsail server directly? E.g.: user information, comments users made, SQL databases... Or do I need a CDN to interface with these databases which should be stored in S3?

    3) Photos taken by the user and shared with others should be uploaded to an Amazon S3 server. Right? Or can these be uploaded to Lightsail without a major performance hit?

    4) The photos uploaded to the S3 server are then shared using a CDN (Cloudfront)?

    Basically the structure would be:

    • To request information stored within a database:
      Frontend > Request to Lightsail > Send back to Frontend

    • To upload a photo:
      Frontend > Send photo binary to Lightsail > Cloudfront > S3 > Cloudfront returns a URL for the photo > store URL in a databse in Lightsail

    • To view photo:
      Frontend > Lightsail to Retrieve URL from database > Send URL to Frontend > View photo

    This is the first time I deploy a server, so please excuse my noob questions.

    If anything is majorly wrong (ex: if using an EC2 was easier for this use case than Lightsail), please do tell me. If I'm trying to do things a particular way, it's because that's what I found online, not because I actually believe it's the better way.

    Thank you.

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    Need help on creating a food delivery website

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 10:19 AM PST

    Me and a friend where asked if we could create a food delivery website for someone. We both know react-redux and express.js so we are thinking of using create-react-app for front-end and an express.js server. We read that we need git, docker, buy domain, host on AWS. What other tools do we need to make such a website work or what do you suggest we use? Thanks in advance for any answers/advice.

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    Noticing You're Confused

    Posted: 23 Jan 2020 11:48 PM PST

    Anyone have experience using EverWeb?

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 01:43 PM PST

    Just curious what your thoughts are comparing this to other web template programs. I'm finding it to be pretty cumbersome and frustrating but this is the first template program I've used so I don't have anything to compare it to. I really don't like it so far, and I'm considering trying to convince my boss to let me pick a different program.

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    Been brushing up on my HTML/CSS, now what?

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 12:56 PM PST

    Hi! I'm pretty new to the world of coding.

    2 months ago I decided I wanted to make websites, so every day since then, I've been learning HTML & CSS to make basic static websites.

    I'm fairly comfortable with HTML & CSS at this point, but I'd like to take my design to the next step. Problem is, I have no idea what's next.

    I would love to eventually turn this hobby into a side job - does this mean I should start working with a CMS? I heard that processwire is a good option, same with joomla (along with some horror stories). I've heard alot of mixed things about Wordpress, not sure if I should pick it up just to add it to my resume.

    Or should I stick to custom sites, and dive into the world of Javascript, and eventually pick up PHP? There are so many routes to take and I'm just not sure where to go next.

    Thanks reddit!

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    Lightweight react hook for sharing state between components.

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 06:24 AM PST

    Is OAuth2 the proper way to authenticate and API if it's only going to be used by 1 client, the website hosting the API?

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 12:07 PM PST

    I'm working on a startup and am in the beginning stages of building the API. The API will never be made public but will be used for the website and app down the road. My question is if OAuth2 is the proper way to be authenticating this type of flow?

    I would essentially have 1 client, maybe 2 but the clients are the site itself which is hosting the API.

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    WebStorm 2020.1 Early Access Program Is Now Open

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 08:15 AM PST

    Front End Developer certificate from a college?

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 11:44 AM PST

    I am hoping to become a front end developer and need to learn it, I saw courses on udemy but I didn't think they would be in-depth enough, I saw this certificate course from a college and wanted to know the opinion of everyone here if this course is worth it? I am being told this course can get me from no knowledge to job ready. I would just need experience. So I am hoping to see if it's worth it?

    Would it be good to be on a resume too? A certificate from a college saying I have been taught front end work.

    Here is the course I am referring to

    https://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/front-end-development-with-html-css-and-javascript

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    Not sure which frontend framework/library to learn

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 04:47 AM PST

    I would like to learn some frontend when I can find some time which is not easy. I don't know which one to learn yet.

    • I saw Vue has the nicest reception from many posts, so I thought Vue probably has the best design. So no matter which technology to begin with or work with, I like to know Vue some time.
    • React has significantly more job positions than Angular and Vue, an indication of some (unknown to me) superiority that makes many companies choose it. I still like to know what the trend is now and in the future.
    • Several people working in enterprises insist on learning Angular instead of React. One side note: Angular isn't OS dependent, but those people are all working under Windows with ASP.NET and Microsoft's technology stack and services and ecosystem, while I only have Linux and have played with ASP.NET Core under Linux recently. The combination of .NET Core + Linux doesn't seem to be (well) adopted in industry or I am not well informed. I am unfamiliar with Windows and its ecosystem for a long time, although I may learn, but I am not sure if learning that will help with or make me alienated from and become unfamiliar with working under Linux which I am still in the process of exploring and learning.

    I like to know your opinions. I am not working currently, but self learning things that are recommended in others' posts.

    Thanks.

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    Porting Wordpress to Prismic

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 10:33 AM PST

    I'm curious if there are any available tools, methods, strategies I should follow to porting a Wordpress site I'm building over to Prismic? It's a fully customized theme with custom functions. Thoughts?

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    Garageband of web development?

    Posted: 24 Jan 2020 04:15 AM PST

    (or is that question too close to asking about WYSIWYG?)

    I work with professional audio and video apps all day - people have brought me projects they've done in iMovie and Garageband and they are decent - not what I would do but I understand the appeal of these caliber of apps - you CAN do professional quality media with these apps and I don't dismiss them for starting there - everybody has got to start somewhere

    I can only learn a limited amount of professional website tools (if any at all - there is so much to do to keep up with the other pro apps) - I own my own domain, I have dedicated audio and video accounts for media, access to blogging would be nice - any advice? Thanks!

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