Week ending 9/1/2017
Goals (8/25):
- Get another PR into Blueprint (e.g. #1409 )
- Understand how Blueprint simulates click, keyboard, and react prop/state change events with Phantom JS.
- Understand
reselect,mapStateToProps,mapDispatchToProps,connect, and anything else that comes up from work. - Review how CSS works and how to cleanly decompose
less.
Readings:
Retrospective:
- Enzyme is a React test mock framework.
Week ending 8/25/2017
Goals (8/21):
- Understand basic testing frameworks whatever Blueprint uses
- Understand basic gulp with yarn
- Work on Blueprint's datepicker or dnd
- Write a post on CORs
Backlog:
- Fix up the rate-limiter library
- Help out with side projects
Retrospective (8/25)
Goals were a bit too aggressive. Ramping up on a new team + extra stuff is a bit rough during the week. I will probably try to substitute DB reading group for Blueprint hack night.
Achieved:
- Merged 1 PR into Blueprint.
- Learned a bit about karma, chai, phantom, and some basics about Webpack.
- Reading group discussion about Spanner.
Things to review from work:
- React/Redux
createSelector
If the Redux state tree is mutated in a way that causes the value of an input-selector to change, the selector will call its transform function with the values of the input-selectors as arguments and return the result. If the values of the input-selectors are the same as the previous call to the selector, it will return the previously computed value instead of calling the transform function.
- PureComponents vs ConnectedComponents in react / redux
- Docker
docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
- CSS (
less) selector specificity and flexbox
Unexpected surprises:
- Some good interview questions to think about: Skyline builder, integer translation, validate BST.
Week ending 8/14/2017
A few things that I got better at this past week:
- Basic JS
- ES6 features
- Regex
- Promises / Bluebird
- Making babel work
- Mocha and basic JS testing
A few things to pick up on:
- lodash and extra language features
A few things to study:
- Webpack
- Front-end testing / Selenium
- Front-end UI testing / Storybook
- Immutables
Interesting things to work on
- Write a rate limit decorator library.
- Write a polling with exponential backoff library.
