Continued my web security studies. Since I am feeling lost I thought reading the docs would help. Wanted an API breakdown and I got a mess instead. I appreciate unique formats when they are in addition to the basics. The PassportJS docs have tutorials and “how-to” guides but the course sections of “Usage” and “Syntax” are hard to find and are sparse from what I have read so far.
I am trying to wrap my head around what I am not understanding with PassportJS. Things don’t seem to click with everything working together. Another problem is the original example used in The Odin Project lesson does not use the express-session package in the app yet while the examples from the PassportJS playlist does. All this is complimented by a lingering headache.
I am going to focus solely on the PassportJS package and writing out my own pseudo docs/notes based on what I can pull from their official documentation and the example tutorials. Hopefully it goes well.
TLDR;
Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:
- Backend -> Continued studying the concepts mentioned in the web security section. Struggled to find clear usage and API documentation on the official site. I may have missed something but if not I have to write it out for myself.
Goal For Round 8 of the #100DaysofCode Challenge
This is my eighth round of the “#100daysofcode” challenge. I will be continuing my work from round five, six, and seven into round eight. I was working through the book “Cracking the Coding Interview” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. My goal was to become more familiar with algorithms and data structures. This goal was derived from my goal to better understand operating systems and key programs that I use in the terminal regularly e.g. Git. This goal was in turn derived from my desire to better understand the fundamental tools used for coding outside of popular GUIs. This in turn was derived from my desire to be a better back-end developer.
I am currently putting a pause on the algorithm work to build some backend/full stack projects. I primarily want to improve my skills with the back-end from an implementation perspective. I have improved tremendously in terminal and CLI skills but I lost focus due to how abstract the algorithm concepts got. I wanted to work on things that were more tangible until I can get to a position where I could directly benefit from improving my algorithm skills and theoretical knowledge. So that’s the focus right now. Build my backend skills and prove my full stack capabilities by building some dope projects.
Again, I still have no idea if my path is correct but I am walking down this road anyways. Worst case scenario I learn a whole bunch of stuff that will help me out on my own personal projects. Best case scenario I actually become one of those unicorn developers that go on to start a billion dollar company… You never know LOL.