One week in.
I’ve logged 12 hours so far over 7 days. So far it’s gone OK and I’m more happy with what I’ve learned in this time than the results I’ve been able to produce.
I feel like I’ve gone from knowing only very little about React – and next to nothing about Gulp, Babel, Browserify and ES6 – and now I’ve got a good hold on the basics and a structure for a demo for this web app.
We’re just under 1/4 of the way through Devember and I feel like the next 7 days will be telling in terms of how quickly I’m hoping to get a fully working prototype of the app. I may have to sacrifice some functionality to get there.
Today I spent some time polishing the UI of the landing page and introducing some animation with the awesome animate.css project. Tomorrow, I’m going to hopefully spend some time investigating routing options for a single page app in React. I’ve looked very briefly at react-router but I’m not 100% sure if it’s what I need. Needs more thought!
Today’s Observations
- Odd hours meant I lost a github streak that would’ve lasted 31 days hopefully
:( - The differences between SASS and LESS (other than syntax) aren’t that obvious to me yet, although compile time seems a lot quicker (anecdotally). Still waiting to discover the “killer feature” which separates the two.
- Stats for today: 1 commit, time spent 1h 37m 32s