Anime Poster Generator 3: I can do frontend
Posted on March 21, 2024 • 2 minutes • 374 words • Other languages: Español
This is a continuation of Anime Poster Generator 2: Jasper old friend
Objectives
Let’s focus in Anime Poster Generator Frontend.
I am NOT a frontend developer!
I am NOT a frontend developer. I am not a frontend developer. I do not engage in frontend developer activities in my day to day.
Having said that, I do know some frontend:
- In 2021, when I was short on money and tired of eating every other day, I wanted to get a real developer job, so I dived into tutorial hell.
- Back there I had my first approach to React, with the infamous 5 hours freeCodeCamp tutorial . That was my canonical event, it pushed me into the React rabbit hole.
- Also failed interviews at MercadoLibre , ensolvers , and CAT Technologies . That made me realize I didn’t know sh*t after the tutorials, which was totally true. Please use tutorials, but escape tutorial hell.
- I have 2+ years in SIGEM
and Buying and Hiring projects. There were times when I was the only developer left, and I had no chance but to deal with the frontend shenanigans those projects have.
- They are built with some old bootstrap admin template, javascript and jquery, all glued together in .gsp files .
- Back when I worked at RunaID
, I was given training in React.
- Got this certificate and did a little admin application for DOSEP .
But my biggest teachers in frontend (specially React) are: Theo , Josh , and Midudev . Here are my fav video from each one:
By just watching their content during these years, I’ve been able to keep up with the whole mess the frontend world is, and how React plays part in it.
Anime Poster Generator Frontend
Truth be told, I already made the frontend weeks before I started writing this blog series. You can check the github repo . There are many rough edges to polish, but having a working product was my main goal.
In the next blog, I’m gonna do a rundown through its files, explain the technologies used, how I implemented Contract-Driven Development practices, and what would I improve if I were a better frontend dev.
Next lecture
Anime Poster Generator 4: A backend dev approach to frontend