Career advice from the maintainer Redux, Mark Erikson

🎙 About the episode

Meet Mark! Mark maintains Redux and is a seasoned developer with more than a decade of professional experience coding and working with Juniors. In this episode, Alex and Mark explore if beginners need to know Redux before delving into Mark's best coding career advice around searching and evaluating online information efficiently and how to find meaningful information on even the most obscure programming errors!

🔗 Connect with Mark

• 👨🏻‍💼 LinkedIn
• 🌐 Website
• 👩‍🚀 GitHub
• 🐦 Twitter

⏰ Timestamps

• Introduction (0:00)
• Working at the same company for a decade (01:47)
• What is Redux and should newer developers bother learning it? (02:38)
• Where does Redux shine? (06:24)
• Quick introduction to TodoMVC (09:58)
• Redux vs Context API (12:12)
• Does Mark with more than a decade experience need Google anymore?  Yes! (17:40)
• How to search information efficiently (20:10)
• How do you search hairy error messages to find meaningful results? (20:44)
• Why TypeScript errors trip a lot of people up (23:53)
• Mark's best advice to folks new in their career (25:07)

🧰 Resources mentioned

• Redux
• Redux documentation
• Fundamentals of Redux Course from Dan Abramov
• Mark's coding career advice series of posts

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