June

Wanderings and learnings : June 2014

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This video on Reactjs is really great.
I am gonna try my hand at making a small prototype for a project that I had been itching to make since quite a while using react in a day or two.

Been spending the last few days learing about Facebook React. Although I was initially put off by the concept of mixing markup with code, after learning about how the framework optimizes it to create a virtual dom and reduce the number of dom reflows, it seems to have a lot of appeal.
Watched this video by Pete Hunt in which he talks about the concepts behind react - primarily coupling and cohesion.

Learnt that git add -u will only stage the tracked files.
You can list the names of files in a git branch by git ls-tree -r <branch_name> --name-only ( Ref )
You can just checkout specific files from another branch by git checkout branchname -- filename (Ref)
Created an annotated tag with a very clear purpose for the first time.
Learnt that git merge can merge multiple branches in a single command. (Ref).
Reverting a branch merge in git - git reset --hard HEAD^. Yes, you can even go wrong with merges.
Apparently Lodash is way better than underscorejs.

Spent the whole day configuring and installing ubuntu on my virtual box to work with my mac as per my preferences. Finally wrote a blog post about it.