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Today I feel dumb. Less than two months into my first Software Developer role and I am starting to get to grips with the codebase, but everyday I feel like I’m just making poor choices (feddit.uk)
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I have to say that since starting I’ve had a lot less support than I was expecting and I’ll be given something to do but very sparse direction. I’ll go away and do my best and usually be told that based on the little guidance I have done good but maybe we could do it this way or that way, which is great as that’s how we learn right?

Also, preface saying that I’m working on a Typescript React app alone as the others have other projects.

So queue today. I’ve got a todo list of questions about my implementation and things I could do better, which they like my diligence of keeping track. Well I was working on a component and like an idiot I hard coded a lot of the data that is subject to change if say they add a new let’s say PetType. So the SE comes over, tears my code to shreds and like a wizard makes it work even better with only dynamic use of data.

I don’t mind the tearing my code to shreds as again it’s a learning experience but my self esteem has dropped off a cliff.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the approach I generally take and I always think it’s poor as I watch the SE’s come over and just write whole components in one go that work seamlessly whereas I will tend to need to figure it out iteratively and thus my code can look like a mess but I will go back and refactor once I have something that works.

I guess it comes with experience as the app I am building is following the contentions of other apps this company has made so although it’s the first time for me, the SE might have made ten very similar apps using the same custom hooks etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's a difference between iterating on your code patterns until you get something working and iterating on the solution as requirements evolve. You're only two months in so you still have loads to learn, but eventually you'll come to know all the "best practices" so that when you're presented with a problem, you can immediately know what the ideal solution should look like. The caveat there is that the ideal solution is subject to change as the situation changes.