Continuing Egghead Redux tutorial video 17 and onwards

Redux: React Todo List Example (Adding a Todo)

• Since this was a React example, not 100% sure how much of this is applicable to ngrx.
• The render function is subscribed to any changes on the store. Because the todos prop is assigned in the render function, it’s always up to date with the latest changes
• The UI component is not aware HOW todo’s are added, but by dispatching the action it expresses its desire to perform the ADD_TODO action, for which the expectations and effect are unambiguously defined.

Redux: React Todo List Example (Toggling a Todo)

Redux: React Todo List Example (Filtering Todos)

• 4:00 Instead of loading all props part of the state as explicit props, you can spread over the entire state to have all props available.

Redux: Extracting Presentational Components (Todo, TodoList)

• An optional pattern is introduced, where components are separated into presentational components and container components.
• A presentational component is only concerned with how something looks, it doesn’t know what data it renders and also not what action gets dispatched.
• Deciding which objects to render and which action to dispatch is what happens in the container component, that in turn, delegates presentation to the presentation components.

Redux: Extracting Presentational Components (AddTodo, Footer, FilterLink)

• Even though separating redux in the container components, vs the presentation components is not required, it makes the code more flexible to move to another framework in the future.
• The challenge that this creates is that a lot of props have to be defined and passed along the way but that is addressed in the next video.

Day 61 Plan

Continue with Egghead getting started with redux, video 22 . Continue with implementing the actions and the reducer for the language switch. Continue implementation of the action to deactivate a language.

Future days - DSpace 7 Angular

• Build a feature where users can customize their own language tags, straight from the UI, by switching on some kind of “translator” mode, to do these changes at runtime
• UI for exporting their customized messages
• UI for enabling/disabling particular languages
• Learn how to write tests and write them for the language functionality
• Angular Universal tutorial based on Tour of Heroes
• Continue where I left off in ng-book

Future days - Analyzer.atmire.com work

• Change String based implementation of error message handling with types and objects, according to Antoine Snyers recent Atmire DevTalk.
• Change string based implementation of the different browse styles to an object, according to Antoine Snyers recent Atmire DevTalk
• Optimize my hideous methods for getItemcount and getRepoCount.
• Re-test the check if we return the right repository to a user who tries to add a new one
• Updating a repository: touch/change the base URL or not?
• Batch ingest: switch to newer add repository methods.
• WCAG testing against the start page to ensure it’s accessible for people who rely on assistive tools.
• Transition from plain CSS to SASS to make it prettier and learn about SASS at the same time
• Instead of the 5 minute cron job, look into a gitlab webhook that executes the update script on prod whever something is committed to master.

Future Days - Productivity

• Get my IntelliJ IDEA Shortcuts for comments in order

Future days - Jekyll http://bram-atmire.github.io/ site

• Make it prettier

Future Days - Atmire.com work

Investigate and work on search engine optimization (SEO) for the main atmire.com website.

Future Days - Learning just for learning

• CSS: Go through the fabulous CSS Diner

September sustainability challenge - Completed

The money has been wired and I’m closing the books on the September sustainability challenge where I was sponsored for every successful day and where I would punish myself for every missed day.

New sustainability challenge - Finish before Christmas

With today being day 43, there are 57 days of coding left. Setting the goal to get there before Dec 25th gives me a little more flexibility while still requiring a high frequency.

In terms of positive motivator, I’m currently thinking along the lines of a big reward at the end, while at the same time still wondering about something more incremental for Oct/Nov, or to have a self-punishment system in here as well.