There was a mentor/mentee night at AngularMN Wednesday night.

Without a formal public speaking by a speaker, we the crowd just broke into little groups as seen in the photo here. As before this was at the virtuwell office in St. Paul and Black Sheep Coal Fired Pizza did the pizza. What are some of the new things that I learned in being mentored? Vue is kinda like an advanced AngularJS at its most elaborate and in its simplest form it is something you can just jam into script html tags as a code block like jQuery. It may be progressively adopted in that you may start out with simple ghetto implementations and stair step into something like AngularJS that is a little bit better than AngularJS. IBM no longer requires that applicants have a four year degree! NLP is natural language processing. This is the algorithmic art of making sense of human language for chatbots and such. Recursion is the looping over something (incrementing through a list/array/collection) in big O puzzles. Frontend Masters, local to Minnesota, has a bunch of hands on frontend trainings and are beginning to break with their namesake and have some backend stuff too in the shape of Node.js trainings. The praises of these guys were sung! They have more of a niche focus than say Pluralsight which is a swath of everything. At Pluralsight there may be five different Angular courses by five different instructors varying in degrees of quality, but at Frontend Masters there is just one dedicated individual for a technology, be it Angular or something else. Also the Frontend Masters trainings make you do little projects while you stop the videos and work on your own some. In a live training the students will just be given a window of time to complete an assigned task. In the GitHub web interface, you may click on your avatar at the upper right, then pick "Your profile" next, and finally pick "Customize your pinned repositories" at the page that appears at its upper right. This will allow you to select repositories from your own repositories to pin and your pinned repositories are to show off your best work. React with TypeScript is becoming a thing. The JSX templates of React now have a TSX sister. The X stands for XML in both cases (as is the case in .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files but opposed to the x in .aspx which has been retrofitted to mean extended after originally meaning nothing). Both of these can get kinda dirty. Code mishmashes with markup in a manner akin to Classic ASP or PHP, all in one file, though apparently it's not as awful as either of those two old technologies. It was suggested that React is of the V part of MVC. In both React and Angular you want to take data in and have events go out and if you fight that way of doing things in either framework you will have a performance hit.