A curated list of readings that the VandyHacks dev team finds interesting and useful.
- CORS explained: CORS is important but sucks - this explains it and tries to solve common problems
- Guide to easy SSL: A great article from Troy Hunt on how to easily secure your website's data in transit. Really important for us since we handle personal data.
- Intro to JWT: Explains how to securely transmit secrets as a JSON
- Netlify > GitHub Pages: A very biased but accurate explanation of why Netlify is better for static websites
- Docs for Apollo Server: Apollo is the GQL server that we use.
- Time is hard: Fun article about how hard timezones are and why they suck.
- Deciding component structure: A guide on how to create a React component hierarchy.
- Getting started with React Router: What it sounds likes - authenticated routes and passing state
- Intro to hooks: The canonical explanation of React Hooks from the team.
- Why we don't need Redux: An argument from Dan Abramov (go look him up!) about why Redux is often not needed
- 12 Factor App: Ben likes this article but Kwuang doesn't.
- Helpful shell commands: Pipe, grep, sort, filter commands which are useful for logging and such
- zsh: Why we like ZSH as our shell
- Best practices: A good guide to the dos and don'ts for typescript from MSFT.
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