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Mar. 20, 2020: What did you learn this week?

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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Saurabh Daware 🌻

I am learning Pure WebGL! I made a cube while reading MDN WebGL tutorials :D

I call him cubey

Here's picture of cubey while he was rotating on his axis:
Picture of cube with colorful faces

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Nick Taylor

Nice! Hi Cubey!

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Cubey has a message for you! Cubey got a little orientation problems though
Cube with Hi Nick written on it

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Meat Boy • Edited

React Native. I am working in the React on a daily basis, so it was very fast to jump into React Native. 😜 Also, I am writing in it charity app for government hackathon, for fighting with coronavirus :)
Link to post about this application:

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Nick Taylor

Nice! I haven't done any React Native (RN) myself. Did you go straight to RN or had you also done React before?

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Learnt how to implement dark/light mode using styled-components and Hooks!

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Nick Taylor • Edited

I haven't used styled-components in a while. Did you go about that using their ThemeProvider?

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Yes, I've used ThemeProvider and createGlobalStyle methods.

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Nguyễn Trọng Vĩnh

react-use / createStateContext + createGlobalState.

I had the ideas to build those things but never built it.
But they do, and it's awesome

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Nick Taylor

Are you referring to this repository or did you create a custom hook?

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React Hooks — 👍



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react-use





npm package CircleCI master npm downloads demos
Collection of essential React Hooks Port of libreact
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npm i react-use





Either way, it sounds like it would make for a great post! 😉

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Emma Goto 🍙

I learnt how to improve my note-taking skills:

It's made me more inspired to write blog posts now!

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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Mehdi Fathi

I learned about server-side rendering & client-side rendering.

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Sara °°°

learned how the shopping cart can be implemented, and how to make asynchronous counter with the cart.

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!