Quick tip for new developers: 90% of your life is going to be sending or fetching data from an API. Get really good at that. Go to mockaroo.com, create an account, and you can create your own dataset and then turn on an API where you can access that data.
Then spin up a Create React App or VueJS app and start fetching that data. Get really good at it. You should be able to write a simple "fetch" using Fetch or Axios in your sleep. This will help you a ton in your career.
Here's a quick video I made over lunch. youtu.be/12WMDEvk_oU
@denvercoder @JooJaco This is such a great tip. I've been writing and losing fixtures, I gotta get me mockaroo!
@denvercoder Well, you have to render it... - how does that change your numbers. I usually write some API calls - set em and forget em... what new developers don't seem to understand - is that they will also need to learn HTML and CSS (for real) - to show all that API data.
@denvercoder Thank you very for the insights. Am learning python/Django and I always read about API. I haven't got an opportunity to get my hands involved maybe because am still young in development. Your post gave me a clear picture what lies ahead
@denvercoder Great tool! But it's not only about REST APIs. It's about understanding interactions between systems. For example event driven architectures, libraries or frameworks, they all have different types of APIs and chances are you'll use these together with rest APIs
@denvercoder That is so not true. 90% of your life is going to be doing what your boss or client asks you to do. The other 10% is looking for a job so you can find a new boss to tell you what to do 90% of the time.
@denvercoder This EXPLAINS MY EDGE SO MUCH! I wrote my first library interacting with a external RESTful API when I was 12 and always wondered why I knew others who started at 12 and weren't doing as well!
@denvercoder That's just 90% of the 20% of work time, most of which is spent digesting API docs 😁
@denvercoder I think apart from web development, it's not that common to deal with JSON (maybe restful) API's.
@denvercoder Good one Tim👍 Another huge % of our lives involves writing documentation for maintaining these beautifully large codebases🎉
@denvercoder I was looking for something like this! Thanks.
@denvercoder That's a very good tip. There is another one that I used in the past. It's @mockableio and it's also very good 👍
@denvercoder learn emacs see the demo of rest mode get inspired
