Week 6: Rooftops
To the top of top of the place I lived, lied a zone of utmost realizations, cool breezes and, within the eyeshot, a view of a world that runs forever to thrive.
Through this context-less statement, I’d like to decipher the importance of Roof-tops during the time in Bengaluru.
With the air brushing over the face and the moon seeming to be the best companion, it always felt like a “let-time-stop” moment.
Day — 1
- Learnt and integrated Reach Router in the application.
- Added various user input checks in the project.
Day — 2
- Learnt about React navigation — how to navigate between screens.
- 5 DSA questions.
Day — 3
- JetBrains IDE Tech-Talk was being held in the office where they introduced some cool tips and tricks to use the new IDE and also gave us goodies, T-shirts and bags.
Some of the interesting taught points were:
(i ) Key Promote X — tells every shortcut for a click (Plugin). This plugin reduces the mouse clicks for the developer by providing them the shortcuts for the same.
(ii) Ctrl + Tab — switch between files and not manually toggle between files in the project folder through the mouse.
(iii) JDBC Driver — A JDBC driver is a software component enabling a Java application to interact with a database. The new IDE connects the project to databases and also forms tabular formats of the same in the IDE itself.
(iv) Regex Checker — Another cool feature that was shown in the talk.
(v) Making GET requests on the IDE itself and use of scratch files (files that are created in a temp folder, can use all features of IDE and help in debugging)
(vi) Ctrl + Shitf+ V -get type of the variable , doing this twice — range of the variable.
(vii ) Difference Viewer for files — quite a lot faster [new — left, old — right]
(viii) UpSource — Using code in browser.
2. Understood and Added Dynamic Rate Comparison to backend repo
Day — 4
- Adding API parameters to a base API through a calling function:
export const getUrl = (url, inlineParamsArray, queryParams) => {for (let i = 0; i < inlineParamsArray.length; i++) {url += '/' + inlineParamsArray[i] ;}url +='?'Object.keys(queryParams).forEach(key => {if(queryParams[key])url += key + '=' + queryParams[key] + '&';});return url;};
Added checks
2. Worked on the backend repo a bit to add the required end points.
Day — 5
- It was International Yoga Day i.e 21 June. Henceforth, some basic Yoga asanas were taught by a trainer for back, neck pain etc. in the office.
- Made more changes and commits in the backend repo, for adding DRC in the application.
It was an interesting week with some happening office events and a bang weekend filled with yum food, ‘Kabir Singh’, Cubbon Park, running the first Yulu bike and some shopping after tons of window-shopping.