front-end VS open-sauced

There's a group called Operation Code that works with veterans in your position. Check them out, at the very least they can give you more specific advice. https://operationcode.org/

I recently heard about Operation Code, but haven't dealt with them myself yet.

I recommend joining the slack for OperationCode https://operationcode.org/ and asking around. There are a lot of actual professionals with good advice and you might even get someone to check your resume.

Come on over to Operation Code and join the Slack.

I highly recommend you join Operation Code where you can find a large vet community with a ton of contacts, you can find mentors, scholarships/training/apprenticeships, and the real excitement is access to our Slack community. There are channels for nearly every tech sector, but important ones for you right now would be Resume Review, Career Advice, Job Board, among others.

If you have (US) military experience there is a good group called operation code https://operationcode.org/ that offers mentoring, opinions on boot camps and traditional ed, translating military experience into civilian life, resume reviews, and other help.

https://operationcode.org/ has a slack you can join and ask question/go through the archive. We aren't terribly active anymore, none of us have handled wfh very well. I used to help run the seattle chapter but we're inactive since our main guy doesn't want to run it and I only like shooting the shit/doing mock interviews and not organizing things.

OpenSauced cultivates a thriving community of developers through its interactive forum. This virtual space provides a platform for developers to exchange ideas, seek guidance, and collaborate on projects, fostering a sense of camaraderie and shared passion for open source. All wrapped up in a nice GitHub stromboli.

In Part 3 of this series, we'll talk about our use of various plugins for Vite on the Open Sauced project. Vite provides extensibility in the form of a Plugin API, based on that of Rollup. For reference on which Rollup plugins Vite is compatible with (and to what degree), see Vite Rollup Plugins

The most straightforward fix for the circular reference was to update react-markdown through one major revision, but this introduced a new snag. In this major revision, react-markdown changed to ESM only, which would be fine for Vite, but not for our testing approach for jest (other than experimentally, so I learned. @0vortex and I got some help from @jasonericdavis on Discord to mock the react-markdown component in Jest (bypassing the need for ESM support) as part of a preparatory PR, and we got back on track.

This is Part 1 of a series about how recently in Open Sauced, we converted the project from using Webpack v4 to using Vite! A lot of what we'll cover in this series deals with PR #1322. @bdougieyo started this as a create-react-app project 5+ years ago and so this conversion certainly turned out to be an undertaking!

In contributing to Open Sauced and other OSS projects as well, I've found time and time again that there are such ample opportunities to learn. However, contributing a feature and sticking with it on a longer term can cause those opportunities to multiply! In Part 3 of this series, I'm going to talk about some of the after-effects of implementing dark mode on Open Sauced in PR #1020.

This is Part 2 of the series on Implementing Dark Mode. This was done in open-sauced/open-sauced#1020, and handily demonstrated to me the wealth of learning opportunities in contributing to Open Source. I for one have learned a ton! On this one, I got the opportunity for learning in several areas. I was still pretty new to React (and I still am), so I had not yet used the Context API. For a lot of the same reasons, I hadn't used the styled-components library before.

This tool is meant to accelerate development on Open Sauced by giving contributors a way to access Docusaurus 2 powered developer documentation available at docs.opensauced.pizza.

Expanding the @open-sauced ecosystem, it became tedious to apply all the necessary tooling available in open-sauced/open-sauced to newly created repositories and synchronising existing ones with minor updates.

I'd like to share the story behind one of my favorite contributions to Open Sauced so far, which is the addition of "Dark Mode", PR #1020. This PR touched 25 files and was pretty substantial in scope, so I'm going to break this up into 3 parts. Part 1 is here is just the background - the what and the why, as @bdougieyo sometimes says. If there's one takeaway though, it's the value of opening a PR early in your process - you can share your progress and your roadblocks, and maintainers can help you get unblocked!