I'll usually watch a few tutorials, read a few blog posts and then dive into an existing application to see how it works.

Then as soon as I can, I'll start to build something from the ground up referencing docs, blog posts and tutorials as I need them.

In many entrepreneurs I find that the dad/mom effect is real. When our first daughter was on her way, it made me kick things into high gear and that has allowed me to do what I like to do for fun during normal work hours.

I have pretty good energy and I attribute a ton of that to not having a commute. My office is on the 3rd floor of our house, so it's very separate.

In terms of time management, it really hasn't changed. I work generally 9-5 give or take an hour everyday and outside of that I'm pretty available. My wife and I are pretty good about not bluring the lines between work and play.

My wife is also a rock start at making life outside of work very enjoyable - when I get off it's less about house/life stress and more about enjoying our time together.

1) I won't say exactly, but lots of front end dev stuff :)

2) I'm not really worried about it. Platforms are nothing - it's all about the creators and what they are teaching. I'm just going to keep making good stuff and I hope it will work out :)

Not yet - this is the first I've heard. Though I wouldn't mind meeting him!

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Gooood question. I've got a blog post on this too → http://wesbos.com/get-the-most-out-of-conferences/

In short, try and make some friends. Meet as many people as you can while still being cool (dont come off as a "networker") and it will work out!

I'd say the best thing you can do is to either:

Volunteer at them - get a free ticket but also it puts you in a spot where you are meeting a lot of the speakers - great people to know.

Speak at them! its a bit scary for some, but a fantastic way to meet a ton of really great people.

Serverside I'm either Express JS / MongoDB / Jade / Passport Or I go with WordPress for a website.

I still have a few clients - I always want to have clients so I can maintain real-world advice - but I'm leaning towards fulltime teaching.

Productivity Hacks? Don't commute, invest your time in learning how to get better or faster at everything you do.

Work towards doing what you love and loving what you do.

In React its the shift from thinking in the DOM to thinking about components and state.

In redux there are some new concepts for most devs - it's the first taste of functional programming for a many.

You are bound to feel a little lost, and it's just part of finding you way and there is nothing wrong with that. It's important to focus on a project rather than a technology. Try to build something fun - like a personal website or a tiny app - then pick your tech and try things out. You will throw it out and start over 2-3 times, but that is all part of learning.

Adam Savage of mythbusters is one of my heros and he explained that when his son was making a Leatherman holster, the first step was to realize that you are going to throw it out and start over at least 2-3 times.

I've answered this a little more here: wesbos.com/overwhelmed-with-web-development

I'm not totally happy with my setup just yet, so I'd look to other devs for their advice but right now I'm using Expect and Expect JSX with shallow rendering + function spys

I'm far from qualified to answer this. I've used both Firebase and Socket.io for chat systems in the past, but never at the scale of Facebook.

Never tried it!

It's not possible to do easily because it requires you to integrate it into your serverside stack. I've done it before with Express, but it was hell to get working.

This is one thing I hope gets better in the React ecosystem.

Never tried it before. It sounds and looks pretty cool but that is all I have to say about it :)

Maybe! I've got a handful of courses I want to do first, but React Native is on the list, just lower on the list.

You should check out Scott Tolinkski's React Native course - it's the best one I've seen so far:

store.leveluptutorials.com/products/tutorials/lut…

It sure does move pretty fast! Most of my job is to learn this stuff, evaluate it, and teach it if I like it and I can't even keep up.

That said, it doesn't bother me at all. It just means that people are figuring out ways to build better apps and websites. We're advancing a ton right now and it's pretty exciting.

I can understand that people feel burned when things change too quickly, but that is a huge part of our industry - it will never stand still.

I either try work it into a paid client project, or explicitly create a small side project that I will finish.

I talk a little bit about my approach here: wesbos.com/overwhelmed-with-web-development

It's kind of the other way around - if I want to learn something I do it as if I were to teach it. When you teach something it forces you to learn it indepth and ask all the hard questions.

I don't teach everything I learn, but I use that approach when learning something.

When a new framework/tech comes out I usually wait for it to become semi-popular before investing any time into it.

It's a front-end tool to manage your state- mostly done in React apps

Glad you are enjoying everything! The tooling is a bit of a sore spot for me. I absolutely love tooling,but I do think that some of it is harder than it should be to learn. It gets in the way when it should be helping us at our job.

The reason I used webpack in my most recent one was because everyone was asking for it. Webpack is very popular in the React community so I thought I'd show people how to use both and they can make their own decisions.

1. I say use whatever you like - most people already have a Gulp pipeline, so it's easy to integrate browserify (or even webpack for bundling) into that. If you are starting from scratch and can make use of some of the webpack stuff, then go for it.

At the end of the day I really don't care all that much - they can both do the same things at the end of the day and I find it exhausting that people are so aggressively opinionated in either direction.

2. Only invest in a tool if it's going to pay you back. If it's not going to either save you time, make your code more maintainable, or make your app faster, then it's probably not worth it.

Glad you are enjoying the tutorials!

Both Egghead and Tyler produce fantastic courses. Both have free and paid courses, just like my ReactForBeginners.com (paid) and LearnRedux.com (free).

People take mine because they like my teaching style. They like how I'm able to explain things simply and get them past any barriers they previously had. You said it yourself — videos are exceptional, you clearly know how to teach. If you really think that, then $59 should be a no-brainer when trying to advance your career skillset.

The biggest apps are:

Sublime Text for writing and coding Screenflow for recording Things for GTD task management Tweetdeck for twitter on steroids Cloudapp for sharing screenshots and uploading files

Hardware is 15" Macbook pro loaded to the gills. Dell 4K monitor. I wrote a bit of info here → http://wesbos.com/uses

Glad you are enjoying the videos!

Most of the time in a Video series is in the prep - what to teach, what we will make, making sure the content follows best practices etc..

Each series is different - to give you an idea Flexbox.io took ~40-50 hours. ReactForBeginners.com took 200 hours. LearnRedux.com took 100 hours.

I'm slowly transitioning myself off client work to work fulltime on teaching - that is through videos, books, in person at HackerYou and WorkShops

I'm not sure about looking forward to, but I've been a huge fan of Stylus and Jade for the past ~4 years.

In terms of apps, I'm looking forward to MailTrain which is going to be an open source mailchimp → https://mailtrain.org/

1. Seems like Redux + Thunks, or Redux + Sagas are the way to go right now.