If you don’t have a job as a developer, learning how to code becomes a much bigger challenge for a simple reason — developers can learn to code on the job.
I want to share with you 7 major challenges people face when learning, especially if they don’t have a developer job. I’m also going to talk about how you can overcome each challenge.
I finally completed my JavaScript course — Learn JavaScript — two weeks ago. I spent 4 years writing this course (which is a long time!). Today, I want to reflect on this journey and complete it before I move onto the next one.
If you’re interested in hearing the lessons I learned from dedicating 4 years of my life to building one course, then this article is for you!
One irritating thing about Github Actions is you can’t debug secrets. If you try to debug secrets you’ll get *** in the log.
This makes sense because Github is trying to help us keep the secret secret (ha!). But it doesn’t help when we’re trying to figure out whether there’s something wrong with the secret we provided.
I wanted to use Github Actions to deploy zellwk.com — when I push a commit into Github, I want Github Actions to build my site and deploy to my Digital Ocean server.
The hardest part of this process is deploying to the server with SSH and rsync. I tried various Github actions like SSH Deploy and SSH Action, but I couldn’t get the permissions to work for A LONG TIME.
I found most articles about Github actions and SSH didn’t help me much. I got stuck with debugging for a few days before I finally figured out how to make the process work.
Today, I want to share the exact steps to deploy via rsync and SSH. This process works for any server, even if you don’t use Digital Ocean.
Github Actions is a Continuous Integration (CI) + Continuous Deployment (CD) tool by Github.
CI and CD are bombastic terms, but they simply mean the following:
Although Github Actions is one of the many CI + CD Tools out there, it’s probably the simplest one to use (in my experience). Unfortunately, the Github Actions docs is a complete mess — they keep pointing you to different pages, expecting you to read everything (and understand everything) when you’re still trying to set up your first action.
Today I want to share the basics of using Github Actions so it becomes easy for you to use it.
reduce is an array method that helps you convert an array into a single value. It looks like this:
const callback = (accumulator, currentValue, index) => {
// return something here
}
const result = array.reduce(callback, initialValue)
initialValue for the first iteration.Let’s go through some examples.
A while back, I jumped onto the hype train and tried to host Learn JavaScript’s marketing page on Netlify — I wanted to join the cool kids. After getting charged for it, I switched to Vercel and I got charged for it (again). I finally went back to good old Digital Ocean.
In this article I want to detail the differences between hosting on Netlify, Vercel, and Digital Ocean, along with what I experienced in the process.
Regular expressions are HARD! They look so complicated, they’re turn me off completely most of the time. Sometimes I wished I was smarter so I can use them more effectively.
While working on Learn JavaScript, I noticed that using regular expressions effectively doesn’t mean you need to write complicated regex. You can write super simple regex that solves a ton of problems.
I’m going to show you a real example.
Hello! I want to begin the year with a year-end review again. I like doing these because it gives me a solid sense of where I am today versus where I was last year.
I want to start 2021 on a good note by giving away 10 copies of my JavaScript course, Learn JavaScript. This course will help you become great at JavaScript within a short span of time. The usual price for this course is $495, so I’m gonna give away $4950 worth of value.
Rik Schennink is also joining me and giving away 5 lifetime Hobby license for his amazing Image Editor plugin, Doka. Each hobby plan is priced at $149, each year, so Rik is giving away a ton too!