E-021: The Best Way To Learn Anything

This week, Jon ramps up his brewing plans with a logo contest, Spencer's girlfriend comes through and lands an XBox and hopefully is overcoming his motion sickness. In the React arena we discuss state management and if you've never used anything more than component state we got you covered.  You'll learn when to up your state game and possibly which type of state management solution will work for you and your app. If you've gotten into Redux or MobX, this is still interesting because we discuss the differences between multiple solutions and you may hear something that may make you switch! 0:00 - Introduction 0:05 - Jon's update / Brewery news 8:13 - Spencer's update 12:58 - State Management in 2021 14:08 - What is State 20:32 - Context 24:24 - Redux / Redux Toolkit 33:23 - MobX / MobX State Tree 40:23 - Recoil 43:38 - Apollo 45:14 - ReactQuery 49:38 - Zustand 54:10 - When to use 'em 56:58 - Migrating from one to another 58:31 - Wrap Up   Links: Jon’s logo contest at LogoMyWay https://www.logomyway.com/28555/friends/5dc00bc4e5 https://kentcdodds.com/blog/application-state-management-with-react Zustand https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand MobX vs Redux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRUT5H6XPI I’m never using Recoil.js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEYiYpASG2A Spencer's Shameless Plugs React Native Fundamentals Workshop https://youtu.be/rLmdmLhfwvQ React Native School https://reactnativeschool.com   Jon's Shameless Plugs FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now) https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

In this episode, Jon deal with rats and realizes he can do impressions.  Spencer gets motion sick over video games but still wants (yet can't find) an xBox. Our main topic this week covers how to be lazy when building mobile apps by carefully constructing reusable components saving you time and hopefully frustration. Building a mobile app can be challenging, but you can make it easier on yourself by using some tools and patterns to build reusable components.  meaning you can use the same component in multiple places throughout your app, and in other apps.   0:00 - Intro 0:50 - RATS 8:46 - XBox motion sickness 10:44 - COVID comparisons 11:47 - Mobile news - Calm 15:38 - The key to sleep 16:17 - Main Topic - Custom Components 16:47 - Main Topic For Real This Time 20:16 - Props all the way down 25:52 - Core APIs 26:32 - Storybook 27:58 - Styled Components 29:47 - Keep 'em light 34:23 - Don't optimize before you need to 35:25 - UI Frameworks can help 37:27 - Felixbility 39:15 - WrapUp   Links Calm valuation https://www.businessofapps.com/news/calm-raises-75-million-at-2-billion-evaluation/   Spencer's Shameless Plugs React Native Fundamentals Workshop https://youtu.be/rLmdmLhfwvQ React Native School https://reactnativeschool.com   Jon's Shameless Plugs FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now) https://fastlanecheatcodes.com 39:15 - Wrap Up

This week Jon is losing his mind and obsessing over his brewery and where it will be, Spencer can't cool and still can't find an Xbox, but does seem to come up with some cheeky titles for his new courses. When we get down to React Native we cover the important details about the recently released v0.64, what you need to do to prepare and what features are worth knowing about. 0:00 - Intro 0:40 - Spencer can't cook 5:05 - Jon's brewery news 8:17 - Spencer's weekly update 13:31 - Mobile news (Amazon's new MacOS EC2) 15:58 - React Native 0.64 16:01 - Hermes for iOS 17:24 - inline requires 19:42 - Shout Outs 20:53 - React 17 21:14 - Hermes proxy suport 22:02 - Hermes profile command 22:43 - Node 12 23:16 - Android min SDK bump 25:43 - XCode 12 26:57 - Prepare now 29:27 - Wrap Up   Links Amazon adds MacOS https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/amazon-web-services-adds-macos-on-bare-metal-to-ec2/ https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/issues/214 https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/blob/20a632d3a61153f813c020ef2c6bca6910958a10/CHANGELOG.md https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/   Spencer's Shameless Plugs React Native Fundamentals Workshop https://youtu.be/rLmdmLhfwvQ React Native School https://reactnativeschool.com   Jon's Shameless Plugs FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now) https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

This week Spencer really wants an XBox and keeps getting denied, if anyone has a hookup - let him know.  Jon gets sucked into the mechanical keyboard community. Then we focus in React Native and talk about how it all works with transpiling and polyfills,. The best part is that you don't need to understand all of this to use it and make great Apps.   03:20 - Jon fell down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole 08:10 - Apple Cutting Fees to 15% (if making less than $1mil/year) 10:10 - Foxconn and flip phones 12:40 - Spencer’s warning: he just learned what he’s talking about 14:40 - What is a JavaScript Runtime? 16:00 - The different JavaScript Runtimes available (presently) and when they’re used 20:30 - Flamboyant claims: the key to listener engagement 21:20 - How transpiling “just works”® in React Native 28:45 - What APIs are available in React Native? Talking polyfills. 31:00 - What is Hermes and how does it fit in? 34:45 - Where to learn more about this stuff   Apple price cut https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-slices-commission-rates-with-launch-of-new-small-business-app-developer-program Foxconn’s folding iPhone https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/16/foxconn-allegedly-testing-apples-folding-iphone-for-release-in-2022 More information https://reactnative.dev/docs/javascript-environment https://medium.com/swlh/react-natives-re-architecture-in-2020-9bb82659792c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gm0owyO8HU Babel resources we talked about https://babeljs.io/ https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-transform-parameters https://babeljs.io/docs/en/config-files/ Spencer's Shameless Plugs React Native Fundamentals Workshop https://youtu.be/rLmdmLhfwvQ React Native School https://reactnativeschool.com   Jon's Shameless Plugs FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now) https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

We have a new friends of the show - Peter Piekarczyk joins us to talk about his company Draftbit and how it can help accelerate your mobile app development using their interface.  Build multiple screens, complex UIs with their drag-n-drop interface, tweak properties to get it just right and view the generated code, or export your app so you're not jailed into their system!  Oh did I mention you can scan a QR code at any point and view it immediately on your device?  Pretty amazing. We also talk about beer, black Friday preparations, travel during these weird times and a lot more. 0:00 - Welcome 0:35 - Introduction of our guest 3:31 - Jon's update (brewery fun) 5:40 - Spencer's update (Firebase, and Black Friday preparation) 6:27 - Peter's update (Travel) 7:50 - Hammerspoon and Home Assistant 11:06 - Mobile News (Apple's One More Thing event) 17:15 - Draftbit 24:25 - Reason / Rescript 30:11 - Draftbit's Origin Story 33:17 - Workflow 39:29 - Video tutorials 40:39 - Getting access 42:32 - Wrap Up   Links: Apple’s One More thing event video only - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umoEDgl_xBo write up + video - https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21550892/apple-arm-silicon-event-macbook-air-pro-mini-mac-big-sur-biggest-announcements Hammerspoon https://www.hammerspoon.org Home Assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/ ReasonML https://reasonml.github.io/ ReScript https://rescript-lang.org/ Find Draftbit Online Twitter: https://twitter.com/draftbit (@draftbit) Web: https://draftbit.com Find Peter Online Twitter: https://twitter.com/peterpme (@peterpme) Github: https://github.com/peterpme Web: https://peterp.me   

** Releasing this early this week ** ** Because we talk about the "One More Thing" event on November 10th** Did you know that Spencer wants to be a gamer now? He thinks hiring a VA is going to give him that time haha.  Jon is looking to fill in any free time he had but opening a brewery in his town and plans are flying all over the place. We would be remiss if we didn't mention quickly the burning trash heap that is our Election process. BUT you're here for mobile development, so ... Do your mobile apps look like crap?  Yea we thought so too.  We're going to cover how  you can up your design skills, without having to take a course.  With the resources we'll talk about you'll be able to figure out how to improve an app you're written or how to build it correct the first time.  We run through UI design / UX design flows / css and layout tips as well as using a pre-built design system.   0:00 - Welcome / the state of the US Dumpster fire 2:20 - Jon's building a brewery 6:24 - Spencer is a wannabe Gamer and hired a VA 13:36 - The vintage iPhone 5c 20:09 - Main topic intro 21:52 - Dribble 26:04 - UI Design Daily 28:10 - UX Archive 32:11 - FlatIcon.com 33:40 - UI Design sub-reddit 34:26 - Refactoring UI 39:31 - App analysis and critique 43:20 - CSS skills 44:33 - FlexBox Froggy 49:38 - Goldfish projects   Links: iPhone 5c is “Vintage” with limited support https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/03/iphone-5c-is-now-considered-a-vintage-device-with-limited-support/ One More Thing event - on November 10th https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/one-more-thing-apple-announces-livestreamed-event-for-november-10/ Prices https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-silicon-macs-explained-everything-you-need-to-know-about-arm-macbooks Dribbble UXArchive UI Design Daily https://www.flaticon.com/packs https://www.reddit.com/r/UI_Design/ UI kits UIKitten https://akveo.github.io/react-native-ui-kitten/ React Native Elements https://react-native-elements.github.io/react-native-elements/ Nativebase https://nativebase.io/ Shoutem https://shoutem.github.io/ React native paper https://reactnativepaper.com/ React Native Material Kit http://xinthink.github.io/react-native-material-kit/ React Native Material UI https://github.com/xotahal/react-native-material-ui Refactoring UI   Spencer's Shameless Plugs React Native Fundamentals Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ React Native School https://reactnativeschool.com   Jon's Shameless Plugs FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now) https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

This week Jon sells his car and and Smoky The Bear (aka Spencer) talks about how ONLY YOU can prevent Chimney Fires. When they settle down for the show topic, the guys review the cool packages, posts and projects they've come across recently.  There's some pretty neat things covered in this episode and really isn't even the tip of the iceberg. If you have one to add - let us know and we'll mention it and YOU on the show.   0:17 - Welcome 0:44 - Jon's catchup / car and demo 3:30 - Spencer's catchup and fire prevention lesson 7:19 - Spencer's new class about building a chat app 8:19 - Brewery Teaser... because Jon doesn't have enough to do 12:01 - Main Topic!  Finally, right??? 12:24 - Old packages and projects and the headache they are 13:07 - Drink Up [drinking game app] 13:55 - React Native Bottom Sheet - [package] 17:18 - Can it be done in React Native - [YouTube series] 19:32 - Lottie animation package - [package] 23:30 - React Native Camera Kit - [package] 24:59 - Hermes JavaScript Engine - [core react native feature] 25:51 - React Native Game Engine - [package / engine] 30:57 - Shared Element Transition - [YouTube series] 33:42 - Gas Buddy migration to React Native - [Blog Post] 32:42 - Wrap Up   Links: Drink Up https://github.com/Redseb/DrinkUpqw React Native Bottom Sheet https://github.com/gorhom/react-native-bottom-sheet Season 4 of “Can it be done in React Native?” https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkOyNuxGl9jxB_ARphTDoOWf5AE1J-x1r Lottie https://github.com/lottie-react-native/lottie-react-native React Native Camera Kit https://github.com/teslamotors/react-native-camera-kit HERMES https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/29914 React Native Game Engine https://github.com/bberak/react-native-game-engine https://github.com/bberak/react-native-game-engine-handbook Shared Element Transition series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQocKVqyqZDShhQWAzxS42cSP7ydl6blD Gas Buddy rebuild https://medium.com/@djmax/react-native-were-really-doing-this-8e69d7b7194f   Spencer's Shameless Plugs React Native Fundamentals Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ React Native School https://reactnativeschool.com   Jon's Shameless Plugs FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now) https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

It's a big week for us, we discover that Spencer wants to hang up his laptop for a lathe and be a wood worker and why Jon is living MTV's Big Brother - sharing a living space with strangers. Microsoft is rebuilding their apps with React Native, there's been several important albeit un-exciting updates to React and Node and we talk about NPM trying to go to war with Yarn. For this week's topic we dive into what GraphQL is (and is not), why it's pretty cool and we cover both client and server implementations including 3rd party services.   01:30 - Spencer’s off week and lack of an update 02:04 - Jon on why to read the fine print of your Airbnb reservation 03:30 - The News (Microsoft using React Native, React v17, Node v15, NPM v7) 07:45 - News Continued, Talking about Draftbit 10:35 - What is Graphql? A high level discussion. 14:10 - How does Graphql work? What’s the integration look like? 18:00 - Why Graphql is so nice for mobile development 20:00 - Walking through an example of using Graphql for Jon’s conference app 24:45 - Graphiql. An amazing development tool for Graphql 26:00 - No more endpoint versioning 27:30 - Implementing Graphql 36:40 - Graphql is to REST as REST was to SOAP? Maybe not as dramatic… 37:10 - Jon repaving the road to hell    Links: Microsoft on React Native React v17.0.0 released - no new features!! Node v15 released npm v7 released Draftbit  Graphql.org Available Graphql tools What is GraphQL - intro Apollo GraphQL GraphCMS Spencer's Shameless Plugs React Native Fundamentals Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ React Native School https://reactnativeschool.com   Jon's Shameless Plugs FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now) https://fastlanecheatcodes.com  

Whelp, if you record often enough, you'll have a disaster.  Unfortunately Jon's mic was all static and very noisy for the first part of the show, so this episode doesn't have our typical catchup and mobile news sections. This is VERY unfortunate because Jon actually had a lot of extra time this past week to do some research and first hand dinking around with his app and talks about the different things he did. We jump straight into securing your app, from how to securely store data to jail break protection.   0:00 - Intro 1:30 - environment vars (react-native-dotenv, react-native-config) 7:13 - expo-secure-store, react-native-keychain, react-native-sensitive-info 9:01 - Auth / Deep linking 11:44 - SSL Pinning 15:18 - Obfuscation 18:22 - Jailbreak protection 25:26 - Outro Links https://reactnative.dev/docs/security Javascript Obfuscation https://github.com/javascript-obfuscator/react-native-obfuscating-transformer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUwWmoJwSLA SSL Pinning https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/an-introduction-to-pinning/ https://itnext.io/react-native-security-ssl-pinning-cde086210d58 React-Native-SSL-Pinning https://github.com/MaxToyberman/react-native-ssl-pinning React Native Fundamentals Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ React Native School https://reactnativeschool.com   FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now) https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

Jon's back!  In this episode we catch up a bit since it's been a couple weeks since we've spoken, we celebrate Spencer's launch of Spectrum 3, hit some Epic news and dive into the best ways we learn with tips along the way. 0:00 - Intro  1:07 - Jon's moving saga and office space 5:11 - Spencer's update, Spectrum launch and camping naked 7:55 - NEWS:  React Native Radio 8:31 - Digital Ocean App Platform 11:13 - EPIC News / Court Date 11:44 - The Best Way To Learn [#clickBait] 13:25 - Doc diving 19:54 - The proper way to use tutorials + critical thinking 24:44 - Suck it up buttercup - if you're stuck, push through it 28:55 - Saturation and Emersion 29:56 - Community Involvement 33:21 - Open source contributions / good first issue 34:50 - Translation as a means of learning 36:15 - Book - Make It Stick 39:46 - Spencer's course review by Jon 42:34 - Community and Egghead.io 44:17 - Wrap up   Links: Apple / Epic Trial https://www.scribd.com/document/479056578/Epic-vs-Apple-Starts-May-3 Digital Ocean App Platform https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-digitalocean-app-platform-reimagining-paas-to-make-it-simpler-for-you-to-build-deploy-and-scale-apps/ https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#app-platform Make it Stick https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learning/dp/0674729013 https://kentcdodds.com/blog/how-i-teach   React Native Fundamentals Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ React Native School https://reactnativeschool.com   FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now) https://fastlanecheatcodes.com