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Lim Xing Zhi

Apr 16, 2020 — 4 min read

It was a hectic school semester. Hope everyone is staying at home, staying safe and far away from other people. The only way we can beat this pandemic is to be together, apart. And now, back to the reading sources. Btw, this post will be a little heavy with git related materials from all my reading, so brace for that.

Tips for Onboarding a Junior Developer

I would like to bring up a few points from this post.

Distinguish between opinions and best practices. This issue surfaces too frequently when working with other students. Since education institutions only teach programming at a very surface level, a lot of students do not understand the concept of best practices and often prefer the quick and messy way of writing spaghetti code.

Dedicate time early on for Git commands. I cannot stress this enough, too many students are unaware of even the most basic Git usages because "the school didn't teach". Others understand but refuse to follow good practices for some reason despite multiple reminders and nagging.

Provide regular feedback. While I was working as a junior developer back in 2017, I was glad that my front-end tech lead often point out my mistakes and places to improve. This often comes when during a pull request. As developers in general, we have to be open to different opinions while understanding best practices and follow a standard development standard and style within the team.

Micro Front-end

https://hackernoon.com/understanding-micro-frontends-b1c11585a297
We know and read about microservices. Now apply all of those concepts to front-end development.

Remote working tips from Atlassian

Here comes the git materials

Git Cheat Sheet

You might not be using the Git command line, but knowing some basic git commands can help. You can write simple scripts or flex to your classmates with the command line. Personally, the only git commands I use frequently in school are git reflog to revert any accidental oopsies and git blame to see who broke the build and why.

Using Branches in Git

https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
This post from 10 years ago is still extremely relevant today. Driessen wrote about how to use git branches, how to keep them updated and how to let them work together with their respective tasks. I wrote another short post on this blog last week, so check it out too.