Can I Have 4 Minutes Of Your Time To Make You A Better Developer?

So how can you grow as a developer? Grow is a very broad term of course. For some people growing means that you have to practice. You have to fall into certain traps, so you know how to fix a particular problem in the future. Practicing is key and practicing never stops. For other people growing means being involved in a community and keeping up with the latest trends.

Don’t stop getting your hands dirty

In this article, I want to share a few key things that I think are very important to become a better developer.

Be willing to learn

Software development is moving rapidly. New trends appear almost on a daily basis. It can be very hard to keep up with the pace that things are changing. Because things change quickly, being willing to learn is very important so that you can adapt to these changes.

One way to learn is by working on side projects. In these side projects, you can work on things that you don’t know how to build or just want to learn. You don’t have to build the whole project on your own. Build small pieces of that project. It is impossible to rebuild Instagram in a week, but you can try to build certain features. For example, you could just build the authentication flow or the API. If…