Stoked on Meteor — Become a Meteor Ninja with the SpaceDojo
Are you appealed by mastering the art of building cutting-edge Javascript app? If yes, the SpaceDojo is a right place where to look.
Meaning there are high-quality video courses, podcasts with knowledgeable people & a pro slack room full of web ninjas powered by the same passion, building awesome stuff.
Note: this article is part of a series called Stoked on Meteor, the introduction and the syllabus can be found on this article: The Goal is to Learn. Enjoy your read!
Josh Owens, also the maintainer of Crater.io, is the one who has taken the initiative to gather these resources together.
Learn new coding skills by watching videos
One good way to improve your skills is by attending MOOCs. Josh provides different kind of videos: some short, some extended and some live.
The short ones are code kata. A code kata is a video focused on a particular aspect of programming, like debugging techniques, and go deep on showing you the different ways to handle it. You can find the SpaceDojo’s code kata on its Youtube channel.
The longer ones are real classes, 4-hour or 8-hour prerecorded videos available on-demand. This paid-training helps you for understanding better how Meteor works. Moreover, Josh recently updated his classes to explain to you how to couple Meteor with React, Cordova & React Native. These new classes provide a lot of content to have a better comprehension on how the things work under the hood.
Stay in the loop of a fast moving ecosystem
Technologies and patterns evolve quickly these days, especially the Javascript world. And as the founder of Free Code Camp said, you should stay in the loop « if you don’t want to be part of the road ».
The SpaceDojo Show is a monthly podcast with regular co-hosts and special guests helping build the web road. These guests are people who make our developer life easier and more enjoyable every day. It’s an excellent opportunity to discover, or re-discover, what happened recently in the tech world. And of course, how to handle it in your daily job thanks to relevant Q&A.
The podcast is available on any podcast apps or Youtube.
Hang out with ninjas
After listening and watching, time to chat! The SpaceDojo Slack room is a community full of interesting fellows. I would say one of the best places to get your Meteor and web development questions answered.
You can reach there experimented software engineers and help each other. Ask in #general or directly via DM, people will get back to you :)
I highly recommend joining the SpaceDojo community!
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