When I started my travel with React Native I noticed that my skills in Javascript were totally obsoleted. As Full-Stack Ruby on Rails developer, the Javascript that I’ve been doing for years was very basic and focused in the use of jQuery mainly for the Frontend and some CoffeeScript. So understanding the modern JS was crucial to can be proficient writing and understanding React.
First, looking at ES6 I could see that it’s a big change with respect to the “old JS” bringing a lot of new features...
I’ve spent most of my career working as Full Stack Developer, mainly building products in Ruby on Rails, but the last few years I’ve been working most of the time building APIs.
Because sometimes I missed the Frontend and because I’m always trying to learn new things, I decided to give a try to learn how to build Mobile apps.
In the past, I played with RubyMotion or Swift but a few years ago while I was having some time off at Indian Himalayas I met some React Native developers that showed...
At the beginning of 2020 I moved to Bangkok (Thailand) to join Omise as API Software Engineer and I couldn’t imagine the big change it was going to bring to our lives, nobody could do it.
To start from zero in a new city and a new job I had to add months locked at home and travel nowhere even to visit family for the first time in the last 10 years. But looking back, it has been good year for me.
I had time to learn new things and put some stuff in order in my life. Also, after June I had...
