React-ing Badly
The weekend has been long and not that full of progress.
I tried most of the afternoon to get some React basics tied down and was nodding off watching the course videos. When it got dark and I probably should have just went to bed I went to the store, because that’s the only thing to do around here. Bought my diet-obliterating treat, a chocolate brioche, which I had resisted as over the top for months but it’s nice (it’s kind of like a babka, but it’s Walmart) and listened to a podcast that had been left unfinished because I had to turn it off to concentrate.
Then I watched a couple of short videos and came home, deciding it was time to load up the starter app React gives you and mess with it until I can remember how things work. It’s like music lessons. You repeat the etude until you don’t think about the mechanical part of it anymore.
I’ve gotten a little bit better. After flailing because I forgot how to set up a component file and get it added properly, I finally got some static content to render. Then I found a couple of videos on passing data around and took a bunch of notes on a 15 minute video, but the props thing and where and how to pull the data became less hazy.
I also used the Markdown extension someone in the Slack chat suggested to me and made my notes less of a hot mess. I have six or seven JS and plain text files that are very disorganized, but this one looks orderly. I’ll need to break them up and extract what I can from them. So a baby step was made.
Early this morning because I’m a vampire I left some notes on someone’s Memory Game. They said thanks. A deed done. I haven’t been able to do much of that lately because I’ve been finding my own way out of the dark lately, but I pulled myself away for the sake of variety and maybe to convince myself that I’m not completely terrible at this.
It also made me think “Damn, I have to rewrite all that bloody code when this is over.”
