Learnt the basics of react and mongo db about a year ago but I couldn't confidently call myself a full stack developer. But after several suggestions from my mentors ( all of tech twitter )
Decided to build something and I chose a functional social media app ( I felt a todo list was beneath me 😂🤣).
Fast forward 6 months after making this decision I did it and here is what I learnt
- Start small ( building a large scale app was back breaking) but challenge yourself
- Understand the fundamentals of what you use ( I found out that I didn't really understand some of the technologies I was using )
- Google is your best friend as a web developer ( my knowledge gap was filled by search results )
- Set a realistic goal for every project ( I wanted to finish the project in 1 month 🤣🤣 )
- Appreciate your little beginnings.
- Read the docs they are there to guide you ( shout out to those who wrote the React, Node js, Express js, Mongo db and mongoose documentations )
- Be part of a community, it would help you out.
well the app is live at My instagram clone .
I would love to hear your experiences through the comments