Help Getting Back in the Saddle

[jsrecovery]

Hey HN, I’m a full stack engineer with nearly 10 years of industry experience, and have spent the last 4 years of my career or so mainly writing Javascript (Node.js and React being my primary envs/frameworks)

I struggled with addiction for many years, and it all came to a head last fall when I decided to seek in patient treatment, which very well may have saved my life.

This said, I have been “out of it” for nearly 10 months and I’m looking to shake off some of this rust. There are motivation issues, but I’m wondering if anyone has any recommendations for an all-in-one guided refresher for full stack JS? I want to be sure I’m caught up with modern best practices, and having a set series of tasks will help me so I’m not flailing. Thanks!

[dexwiz]

Look into something Copilot. It can really help with the blank white page problem when getting started on new projects.

[jsrecovery]

Thanks! I could absolutely see using something like Copilot to eliminate boilerplate when getting a project off the ground in a professional environment, but for what I intend to do now I’d really like to put in all the work, purely as a personal exercise

[maccaw]

Learn TypeScript, Next.js, Vercel, and Tailwind. That's my advice.

Sign up for Vercel and play around with the sample apps.

[jsrecovery]

Thanks! I forget to mention I have done a lot of TS work in the past, but I should refresh none the less. I’ll check out Vercel