The Call Kent Podcast

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How are you still productive!? Aug 03, 2023

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What's changed from 2018 in regards to how you're able to achieve such high levels of productivity? Do you still spend more time producing than ingesting courses?

How I am so productive

How are you still productive!?

Best practice for using localStorage in React Jul 18, 2023

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Lots of examples demonstrate wrapping localStorage setters and getters in hook, but no one ever explains why they don't just use localStorage directly.

Best practice for using localStorage in React

Remix Full-Stack Components (vs Server Components) Jul 13, 2023

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With React Server Components getting more traction, this idea of each component being able to fetch its own data seems to getting more popular rather than data-fetching being purely route-based.

In Remix-land, you’ve had a talk about “full-stack components” with a similar concept where a “resource route” can have no default exports but still export a loader and a React component in order to have a reusable component with its own data fetching.

It seems there might be differences between React Server Components and these “full-stack components” though, especially in that Server Components don’t need to be defined in routes but Remix full-stack components do.

Firstly, how are the two approaches different?

I ask, because I know Remix is working on implementing Server Components without the foot-guns, so curious what how the mental model would change in the future.

You, also said that it isn’t a good practice to get into to commonly import components from other routes.

My second question is why is it not a good practice, and can you give examples for cases where it would or wouldn’t make sense to import full-stack components from other routes?

Thank you!

Full Stack Components

Remix Full-Stack Components (vs Server Components)

A 10 year old itch to make a switch (QA to dev) Jul 10, 2023

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For 10 years, I feel that I've been separated away from my true love, which was coding. I'm 35 now, married, and have a kid. Some people say that its too late to be a developer now. But, I want to give it just one shot so I wouldn't have any regrets later. This time, I'm following my heart! Away I sail, onto this pathless path.

A 10 year old itch to make a switch (QA to dev)

Should I go to college or not? Jun 29, 2023

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looking for direction

Should I go to college or not?

Resources to learn senior development skills Jun 22, 2023

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As my career has progressed, the types of problems I face have also progressed - questions like "How should we architect this solution" and "How should we decide between these trade-offs". However, I've struggled to find resources to help me learn these skills. Are there any resources that you would recommend and, in general, how do you continue to learn and progress even as you reach more senior levels of development?

How to get experience as a software engineer

Resources to learn senior development skills

Passing state across components in RemixJS Jun 19, 2023

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If I was just using plain React, I would use the Context API or even global variables to keep track of the state of an application. Whats the best way to achieve this when using Remix?

useOutletContext

P.S. You can definitely still use context if you like!

Passing state across components in RemixJS

How To Deal with Hiring Developers? Jun 16, 2023

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I have to manage my projects and outsource them, otherwise, I would never make enough money to keep my business afloat. I have this problem, where, when I start a project, the product owner will ask questions like, "What happens if you die?" and my best answer to that is, "That's why we have employees". But, when I go to hire employees, sometimes they completely just ignore the stack that I'm using and they go off and do their own thing, which becomes difficult to manage. Should I be ruling with an iron fist, or should I just be more of a liason between my clients and my developers?

How To Deal with Hiring Developers?

Why do you use the Express adapter for your app? Jun 15, 2023

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I've seen you're using the Express adapter for your Epic Stack and your personal website, as opposed to just running the Remix dev server. Why is that? Are there any performance implications?

Why do you use the Express adapter for your app?

Minimum skills for a Frontend dev job? Jun 12, 2023

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What is the minimum skill set one need for a front end dev job. Do you need to know version control, testing, tooling etc or is js html css and a framework enough, also is typescript considered.

Minimum skills for a Frontend dev job?