2022 in Review

Welcome to 2023 and hope this year will be better than 2022 for everyone. Today I want to share a review of my 2022, how it went & what new things happened. Let's jump right into it!

Joined a new company

Previously I was working for a company named EKbana Solutions. I worked there as Frontend Developer for nearly 8 months. At that time, I felt that I was not growing with the team members and left that job to take some time-off & to learn on my own. After 5 months, I joined Botsplash and currently working as a Full Stack Javascript Developer and I'm happy to work on a SaaS product with a great team.

If your business needs a modern omnichannel consumer engagement platform and wants to achieve higher sales by being efficient then Botsplash is for you.

Why I stopped writing blogs and the future

If you see the previous blog I wrote, it was 10 months ago. When I first started writing blogs, I was very happy to share my knowledge because I'm also a self-taught developer and learned to code through blogs & videos. But later, I felt like I was reading others blog and copying many of it to my own blogs. That was not my actual motive behind to start writing blogs so, I stopped.

But after reading many blogs out there and analyzing it. I feel now that I'm ready to start again. I'll be writing blogs starting this year.

What I learned in 2022

In 2022, I learned & experimented with many new things. I continued adopting and learning more Typescript and the main highlight from it is Generics. It helped me to reduce my code of types by making it reuseable. I learned more of React and looked into Solid and Remix but didn't tried to learn any other framework/library. The new React docs is a great place to read about it.

For backend side, I started learning SQL and PostgreSQL in more detail because I didn't wanted to be stuck to just NoSQL Database. I also spend countless time reading blogs on Nodejs topics that was new and advanced to me like multithreading, clustering etc.

Vite was a great DX improvement for me. Data Structures and Algorithms helped me to think problems in a different way. React Query & RTK Query made me realize how caching can be a great addition to an app. Also, I'm thinking to rewrite this blog in Astro. Those were just the highlights and the list of my learnings are so much more.

What I'll be learning in 2023

First of all, I'll continue learning SQL and PostgreSQL and finish it before anything else. I'll be learning some AWS Services if needed & Redis for sure this year. I've started loving real-time apps so, I would learn Websockets & Socket.io.

Others, I think I'll learn more about microservices and the technologies around it. I still have some interest on Blockchain and animations so, I could also learn it. If new technologies pop out, I'll take a look into them like I did for tRPC. Finally, I would create some blogs around all of these topics so, keep an eye out.

Wrap Up

That's all to say. Happy new year once again and have a great year everyone.