I'm still excited about keeping this blog, but it's awkward to try to explain the things I've been doing. I've learned so much over the past few days that it would take much longer than I'm willing to spend regurgitating it here.
An Epihany
Blogs weren't designed for code. Sure, it's OK to talk about code and include a few snippets or gists, but blogs are meant for rambling about stuff, not granularly documenting code. It's too cumbersome to add context. Additionally, I spend all my time in the code. Why not work on helping out noobs like us while I'm in there?
Github Accounts Are Free
I've forked the MEAN boilerplate (forking is just making your own copy in Github) and called it Nice MEAN. This is, to extend the Harry Potter reference, my textbook. I'm going to keep writing notes in comments to you, me, and everyone else explaning what's going on in the code. That's what I've been doing all week anyway. It's dumb to come to Blogger and try to reproduce that. So, while you're learning the MEAN stack, please feel free to use my book. You can get the version without dog-earred pages like everyone else, but my version has lots of comments from the layman's perspective. Hell, get both versions. It's not like you have to pay for them.
tl;dr
This was not too long, but for consistency... Today's lesson: Use the right tool for the job.
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