Javascript vs Typescript! Teacher to Software Developer! Commit Your Code EP 8‪!‬ Commit Your Code!

This is Commit Your Code! A show about software development, technology, and the developers that use it! Migrating Javascript Applications to Typescript! Using tools in React for state and The technical side of "What happens AFTER landing your first job in tech as a developer?"!

These topics and more are in the newest episode of Commit Your Code! Like & Share this!

I am your host, Danny Thompson!

Today's guests:

Special Guest Host
- Shane Walker
Software Engineer
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Technical Guest
- Austin Akers
Senior Software Engineer
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Speaking From The Junior Perspective
- Kyla Gregory
Software Developer
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ALL OPINIONS ON THE PODCAST ARE THAT OF THE SPEAKER AND DOES NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS OR OPINIONS OF THEIR COMPANIES

Each Episode will Have 3 guests!
- 1 Special Guest Host
- 1 Technical Guest
- 1 Junior Developer who has landed a job in tech within the last 18 months!

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Beginning
1:05 Introductions
2:21 Benefits of shift to typescript
7:56 drawbacks of migration to typescript
9:44 Challenges in migration
11:02 Laugh In Types
12:30 Go fo complexity or ease of onboarding new devs?
14:06 Code Readability
15:49 Best practices And React Query
16:45 React Query
18:36 Message for Tanner Linsley and TKDodo
20:48 Migration creating a loss of resources?
22:56 Pulling too many threads
25:45 Kyla Gregory Joins Us!
26:02 Question "I don't know what"s going on here?"
28:43 What tools did you use when landing your first job as a software developer?
29:59 Tools used before entering tech vs tools used now
32:50 locator.js
33:53 React dev tool and redux tools
34:40 What processes with your job changed switching into tech?
37:50 What was scary about switching careers? How did you overcome it?
39:50 Joined Twitter and found a community
40:45 Technical problem you have solved in the past
42:46 What do you know NOW that you wish you knew before starting your first job in tech?
44:15 "MAMA I MADE IT!" moment
45:50 Applying to jobs with rejection
46:30 Closing remarks and Commit Your Code!




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