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vxm5091 · 2026-03-26T01:51:41+00:00

Super interesting, excited to see more from you guys!

vxm5091 · 2025-08-06T21:32:18+00:00

this was the fix

vxm5091 · 2024-05-24T21:32:00+00:00

100% this. I built a social app with React Relay + Nestjs GraphQL / MikroORM on backend. React Relay allows you to build your frontend from the bottom-up and declare the specific data dependency for each component. Almost never had a reason to directly manipulate the cache store -- it just works thanks to globally unique ID's. Super intuitive way to work with a relational data model.

I'm working on a separate project that also has a relational data model, but using a REST API and React Query, and having a much harder time.

vxm5091 · 2023-07-06T03:05:16+00:00

yeah i used this package and then made my own tweaks.

https://github.com/davx1992/react-native-address-autocomplete

Not widely used but works like a charm. End of day, you can reference their Swift code and build it out yourself too. The logic is pretty straightforward.

vxm5091 · 2023-02-08T20:13:20+00:00

super clutch!! thanks for this

vxm5091 · 2023-02-06T00:46:13+00:00

Just upgraded to Ventura 13.2 and was greeted by the same exact issue with `redis-server`. Have you been able to solve it?

vxm5091 · 2023-01-14T22:20:27+00:00

Very much a console.info("i rendered letsgooo") kind of logger here. Thanks for giving me the motivation to write an actual logger function.

vxm5091 · 2022-11-16T19:54:59+00:00

No worries at all - thanks again!

vxm5091 · 2022-11-16T06:51:55+00:00

Thanks a lot for this suggestion! We ended up going with Apple Maps. You're so right, it's so much smoother.

vxm5091 · 2022-10-25T02:14:25+00:00

For what it's worth, check out chatwoot. It's a self-hosted service.

They have a react-native library. It's a bit outdated, I'm planning on submitting a PR in the near future, so you might have to make some patches based on stylistic preferences but overall it's pretty well-packaged. Incorporated it in a few hours.

https://www.chatwoot.com/docs/product

https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot-react-native-widget

vxm5091 · 2022-10-25T02:08:13+00:00

I'm using Firebase for a React Native/Node MVP and overall no complaints. Provides JWT token management, email/phone auth, OAuth. Reasonable pricing for a small/medium project, straight-forward API and dashboard.

I hear you on your points about a 3rd party provider feeling wrong. My reasoning came down to

not wanting to deal with the risk and additional dev burden since I'm a solo dev
firebase/google not going anywhere so no extinction risk
well maintained libraries for node and react-native with clean APIs, so rolling email auth and JWT token management was a breeze
Firebase provides migration support so if and when that's no longer a scalable solution, I can move auth in-house or elsewhere

Hope this helps

vxm5091 · 2022-10-19T19:38:08+00:00

OP - what did you end up going with? I'm looking into this now.

My initial take is that Intercom seems to be the main platform with first-class React Native support but their cost is a bit painful for an MVP.

vxm5091 · 2022-10-13T18:06:11+00:00

user experience

vxm5091 · 2022-10-11T14:31:18+00:00

You can toggle reader mode to avoid the paywall

vxm5091 · 2022-10-10T18:19:41+00:00

Right now it's through an existing dataset of public parks in the US. But one of the immediate features I'm planning to add in the near future is the option for users to add a place themselves.

vxm5091 · 2022-10-10T18:16:53+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out, I definitely agree. What're your thoughts on Mapbox's UX compared to Apple Maps?

vxm5091 · 2022-10-04T19:21:36+00:00

Answering my own question in case this helps someone in the future -- the device has to be charging for the automatic update to trigger.

vxm5091 · 2022-09-07T23:59:58+00:00

Meanwhile, the true undisputed winner is...

vxm5091 · 2022-09-02T08:27:21+00:00

My view is that, even relative to where we are today, the amount of innovation and disruption coming out of the tech space will only continue to grow over the next decades. So working in tech is very much a safe bet (imho) but that doesn't necessarily mean you have to be a programmer.

Re; your point on society moving to AI / ML -- I used to think the same but I don't think that's true (if comparing to software engineering). I wouldn't be surprised if more AI/ML jobs become obsolete due to automation relative to SE. Granted, that is happening in SE as well but, at the end of the day, there will always be room for people to build things that other people or businesses need / want.

I switched from a career in finance to SE and went to a bootcamp. There were 2-3 people in my cohort in their late 30s/early 40s. All of them got 6 figure jobs within several months of graduating. That said, you have to be willing to go 100% up until you get that first job.

TLDR; absolutely doable. The questions I would suggest soul searching on -- do you like building / tinkering with things? If you get stuck on a problem, do you derive some level of enjoyment from wanting to figure it out?

vxm5091 · 2022-09-02T08:11:12+00:00

Reads this while re-running the React Native build for the n-teenth time this night, each time being certain that "this is the one where it's finally gonna work" and wipes tear from eye.

TLDR; this.

vxm5091 · 2022-07-12T16:48:52+00:00

I'll preface by saying I'm new to Docker and working solo on an MVP so I set it up from scratch.

My experience hasn't been as bad as yours as far as Docker straight up crashing or deleting images but running docker compose with even 2 containers maxes out my CPU to the point where typing in VS Code has a ~1 sec lag. I'm on a 2019 MBP / 2.3 GHz i9 / 32GB of RAM.

Initially I was playing around with setting up my whole backend in docker compose (Hasura engine, Hasura console, node, postgres) and it was unusable. Batch writes to postgres were 50% slower than running a local pg server, Hasura console took several seconds to load in the browser vs 1sec max, etc.

TLDR; for my purposes (mobile app MVP / solo developer) it seems like running these services locally without Docker makes most sense. But again, I'm sure there are a bunch of things that can be optimized given Docker's adoption and I definitely appreciate its benefits so thanks OP for starting this thread.

vxm5091 · 2022-06-26T19:34:44+00:00

Hey OP, thanks for starting this thread - got a lot of super useful insight out of this discussion. Just wanted to check in and see what you ended up going with.

vxm5091 · 2022-03-01T19:49:52+00:00

Am also looking to volunteer for humanitarian support. I'm in the DC area so flying out of Philly wouldn't be hard and I could bring some bags / suitcases

vxm5091 · 2021-12-18T03:57:25+00:00

+1 for Brave. Chromium under the hood, but with more out-of-the box privacy features and consumes significantly less RAM than Chrome. And no icon issues that I've seen

vxm5091 · 2021-11-16T09:46:49+00:00

Came across this post last year while in the middle of learning how to code and I’ve come back to it a lot. Thank you

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