Web dev learning list | Sajad Torkamani

Philosophy
- Read Getting Real by 37signals
HTTP
CSS
- Become familiar with CSS animations
- Become familiar with the grid system by writing a web page using grids.
JavaScript
- How do web workers work?
- What do we mean by JavaScript being single-threaded?
- Understand how tree-shaking works in Vite and how to optimize builds.
React
- Consider whether using Jotai makes sense in some scenarios
- Checkout TanStack/router
- TanStack Query
  - How can you prevent a useSuspenseQuery() hook from suspending if you previously had data
MySQL
- Improve mental model of SQL joins
- Event scheduler
- Practice using self-joins with some katas.
PHP
- Learn to use Rector
- Read https://phptherightway.com/
- Understand how iterators work in PHP
- How does PHP get compiled?
PHP tooling
- Checkout Rector
- Start using PHPStan more. Make it a core part of your workflow. Become a master of the tool.
- Understand all the tags of phpDocumentor.
Laravel
- Take courses by Spatie
Symfony
- Become intimately familiar with Doctrine’s EntityManager
- Understand the dependency injection container
- Understand logging in Symfony
- Find out how to open links from the Symfony Profiler in PHPStorm
- How does the event system work?
  - Symfony 5 Deep Dive! The HttpKernel Request-Response Flow
- Become more familiar with the Symfony profiler
- Become very efficient at writing API endpoint tests
- Consider the Symfony certification as a way of forcing yourself to learn the framework well
- Get comfortable with tools
  - Test fixtures
    - alice
    - theofidry/alice-data-fixtures
  - Admin tool
    - EasyCorp/EasyAdminBundle
- Create a Symfony prod deployment checklist
  - Configure env vars for prod
API Platform
- Read through the whole docs again to solidify understanding of the framework.
TypeScript
- Write post on conditional types and the infer keyword.
Jetbrains IDEs
- Check out https://masteringphpstorm.com/
- Check out Christoph Rumpel’s PHPStorm tips here.
Deployments
- Checkout watchtower to perform rolling updates for containerised applications
- Check out Nginx Proxy Manager
UX
- Read the 37signals principles here. Good example here.

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