Building an App in 5 Days Taught Me THIS
I was recently stuck in the trap of preparing to code, without actually starting. The only way out was to take action. So with a list of crazy ideas, I decided to build a project.
One week or five afternoons, and I'd deploy whatever code I had written. No matter what.
This is the story of that journey and the lessons I learnt along the way.
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0:00 The challenge
0:36 Idea, name, project setup
3:09 Unit testing, mocking
4:56 JavaScript tricks, database
8:09 APIs, premature optimisation, frontend framework
9:59 Styling, time limits, end result
