Top Resources for Developers

Guest

Aleksandra Desmurs-Linczewska

Software Engineer

Callstack

Host

Łukasz Chludziński

Engineering Manager

Callstack

The second Coffee Talk is all about knowledge - Ola and Łukasz explore the best ways of staying up to date with the community news. They discuss the most valuable resources such as newsletters, top X accounts, blogs, podcasts, GitHub, release notes, and many more!

Staying up to date as a developer

The number of available resources can be intimidating
How to practically categorize them and use them for your own self-development

Resources

Newsletters

The React Native Newsletter
Tyler’s (ui.dev) newsletter
JavaScript Weekly
Cassidy Williams’s newsletter

Conferences

React Universe Conf (formerly React Native EU)
React Summit
Chain React

Podcasts

React Universe On Air (formerly The React Native Show)
React Native Radio
DevSpresso Podcast

YouTube channels

Ben Awad
William Candilion
Fireship.io

The overview of resources will prove helpful regardless of whether you have much experience or you are new to the React and React Native world. Enjoy listening!

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