First full week at new role behind me. Really grateful to jump into modern, well-architected, and advanced codebases.
The technologies I’ll be delving into on my own time and getting comfortable with:
1) Formik
2) React-Query
3) Yup schema validation
4) Styled components
5) Advanced TypeScript generics
Two things that I have been doing and practicing, as I navigate the new role:
1) Keeping product-first thinking in selecting tasks to work on. What creates the most value? What does the team need done to get over the launch line? What helps the product the most? This requires a lot of communication and starting to build relationships.
2) Pushing myself out of the comfort zone by picking non-trivial tasks to complete. It may be nice to get a little thing done to get my feet wet, but I learn more about the products and team by working on something a little more complex. Examples include a bug fix or a new feature
