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Potluck - Bootcamps Career Change Figma Gatsby AMP Mongoose More!

Published: March 25, 2020, 1 p.m.

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It\\u2019s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about bootcamps, Figma, Gatsby, AMP, Mongoose, imposter syndrome, and more!

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Show Notes

3:02 - Q. Scott, you talk a lot about your workflow with Figma. As a designer going to programming it sounds like the workflow was natural to you. As a programmer trying to move into design, I have no idea how to get started. Could you explain your workflow on starting a new project in Figma through starting to implement in VSCode?

5:36 - The dreaded monitor question, flat or curved?

8:34 - I am relatively new to web development and have learned HTML, CSS, Node and Mongo. I planned on taking your GatsbyJS e-commerce course, however, I have no experience in React whatsoever. Should I learn React first?

12:35 - What is AMP and should I be using it?

16:07 - What are the advantages and disadvantages of building a web app using a framework such as Blitz.js?

21:46 - Would you ever consider moving from Mongo / Mongoose?

24:47 - I am very new to the dev world. Went to college 15 years ago for Comp Sci, but dropped out halfway through to become an electrician. (Wasn\\u2019t sure if I could sit in an office all day.) Long story, but I\\u2019m wanting to change my career path and I\\u2019m very interested in software development. I\\u2019ve heard about Modern Labor\\u2019s bootcamp and I\\u2019m intrigued. I\\u2019d like to know what your take is on their program.

33:15 - Loved your recent episode(s) on serverless functions. I\\u2019ve implemented a few myself, but I always come back to the same question: how exactly do I secure these endpoints? Because you are charged for compute time, and those endpoints are publicly available, couldn\\u2019t anyone just send requests to them and run up your bill?

36:53 - I\\u2019ve decided to make a career out of coding and programming and I\\u2019m an absolute beginner starting out in HTML and CSS. It might be a weird question but how many/what percentage elements and declaratives do I need to memorize? It\\u2019s not that the info is necessarily difficult to parse, it\\u2019s the amount of tags that I\\u2019m bombarding my brain with is muddying my progress. I\\u2019m more of a theory-driven learner so it\\u2019s not the biggest obstacle in the world but I\\u2019m starting to see the breadth of this endeavor and I\\u2019m not sure how to focus my mental acuity.

40:39 - Do you have a standard folder structure that you follow for placing \\u201cutility\\u201d function JS files? Is there an \\u201cindustry standard\\u201d? I\\u2019ve just been using\\xa0utils\\xa0or\\xa0utilities\\xa0inside\\xa0src, but curious if there is a more common way.

44:12 - Is figuring out new techs/modules/plugins/whatever really as easy as reading the docs for most people? A common response to \\u201cwhat\\u2019s a good way to learn x\\u201d seems to be \\u201cthe docs are good\\u201d. I then open the docs and am absolutely clueless. Are these people just giving bad advice, or do the docs actually give most people enough to go on? For example, I tried to implement username login with Passport using their docs, and a lot seemed to be left out, implying you\\u2019re supposed to just already know all this other stuff. It\\u2019s a bit demoralizing to feel like I can\\u2019t figure out much of anything on my own, and I\\u2019ve been doing web dev for a few years now, albeit not professionally, but I have done some big projects that are used regularly. So anyway, just wondering what your take on this common advice is, your experience with being able to figure out things on your own without needing an hour-long tutorial, and so on. I know you\\u2019re both tutorial makers, but I don\\u2019t get the impression that you two have to take a course to understand something new.

48:19 - Do you have any tips for getting over \\u201ccode shyness\\u201d or \\u201cimposter syndrome\\u201d? I find myself struggling with this issue from time to time and was curious to know your suggestions for dealing with it.

53:36 - If I rename my GitHub repo, will all the links that are in the wild still work. For instance will github.com/webruin\\xa0map to\\xa0github.com/newname?

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