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We Are All Hemingway

Talkat React Summit 2020 · 2020-10-14..10-15· [soft-skills]
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Argues that fiction craft maps to coding with concrete steps: builds a React fetch component incrementally, starts by rendering a fallback, adds local state with useState and a request in useEffect, then surfaces errors by passing them to the children function instead of handling copy or styling inside the component. Recommends write what you know as a way to unblock and to repeatedly ask is this part of the story to strip unrelated complexity and keep components small and testable.

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  1. 0:00Welcome
  2. 1:43Technical to fiction writing
  3. 3:30One page syndrome in coding
  4. 7:42Removing what isn’t the story
  5. 10:33Simpler components through storytelling
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