I鈥檝e spent the past year as a technical lead for the first time in my career and there have definitely been a lot of lessons learned but in this post I want to focus on personal productivity and time management and the techniques that have helped me in this area. As an individual contributor on a dev team, decisions about what you should be working on are mostly made for you....
I鈥檝e gone through the setup and daily use of a number of editors over the years including most current popular ones for front end development (i.e. sublime, atom, and vs code) and for me VS code is the best choice for front end development at the moment. The team has put a lot of effort into making it a great javascript experience out of the box and it shows (VS code itself is written in typescript and the team uses vs code to build vs code) and with some additional work you can have the best experience while writing javascript....
In my opinion Git hooks are an incredibly useful yet under-utilized feature of git. There are lots of resources that go into hooks in detail but here I鈥檓 just going to list some of the ones I find myself using over and over again. prepare-commit-msg This hooks is great for templating your commit messages. This post does a great job of highlighting some powerful possibilities. I like to use it to automatically insert a ticket number from the current branch name....
I recently migrated my blog from Github pages to Netlify and so far it鈥檚 been an awesome experience! Netlify gives you so much for free it almost feels like stealing! If you鈥檙e hosting some static content on github pages or S3 or somewhere, I highly recommend you check them out especially if you have a static gen build process. One of the cool features Netlify gives you is configuring 301 redirects using a simple _redirects file in the root of your site....
It鈥檚 pretty easy to configure npm to connect through a proxy by setting the proxy and https-proxy config settings and you can even use npm config set which will store them in your .npmrc file. Connecting through a corporate proxy that requires authentication, however, can be a little trickier. To specify your credentials, you have to place them in the proxy url so your npm command would look something like this:...