Next.js Tutorial
My background is squarely in backend .NET. I quit development about the time that React.js came along to tell Angular that Angular.js was a POS. My experience in front end development was situated in MVC3 and knockout.js (which came included with MVC3).
Needless to say, lots has changed. I watched as the landscape shifted to React.js, and functional programming became a standard application structure. Typescript came into favor, beating out the JS purists. And then AI came along.
I was behind, but what I had to learn was so exciting. My first website was table-based, and focused on my favorite Diablo 2 character (the necromancer, obvy).
Now I’m setting up an environment within Visual Studio Code (I’ve predicted a lot of the tech industries direction, but never thought that MS would create the defacto development IDE) and running a next.js server within minutes. I’ve decided to focus on learning the MERN stack. I don’t believe .NET would be too difficult to pick up, and my .js skills need some serious catchup.
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I spent the majority of my time on my first day expanding my knowledge of the development environment itself. 99% of my experience has been in Visual Studio developing .net, and back then I was even using SVN. While I managed a lot of teams using Git, I’d never actually sat and argued with it.
And today I know my arguments with git are just beginning. I’ve always known it would be a pain. The number of git jokes out there aren’t because git is smooth and easy to use.
I ended up learning how to run someone else’s code in a codespace, which is just…well it’s awesome, y’all. For following the Linkedin Tutorial by Shaun Wassell, being able to just set up a Codespace was amazing. Shaun also set up the different videos as separate branches, so as I play with things and ultimately mess them up, I know I can keep moving forward by just codespacing a new branch.
The first thing I’m recognizing is that I get to respect my scrum master experience and set myself up a backlog and some expectations. There’s too much to learn, too many jobs to apply to, and too much restructuring of my online persona I need to do to just wing it.
So tomorrow I set me up a clickup sprint project to keep me motivated and moving forward.
