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Hey Reader,

this is the Devdactic newsletter which tastes like your first pumpkin spice latte in fall.

I'm typing the newsletter with a blanket on my legs as I'm going through what feels like the 10th cold of the season already - send some healthy vibes over ✌️


🎉 New

Using Ionic Gestures in a React App

Ionic Gestures are a super interesting topic and usually not used often enough. In my latest quick win I described the usage with React, which actually allows us to use Ionic Gestures in different ways from code and as a component!


🧠 Brainfood

The fragility of web development 🙈

You might have heard that I'm working on a new project (codename Banana) and last week I implemented a bunch of features with webhooks, triggers and cloud functions - which felt amazing!

But how easy can all these systems that we create collapse? I've talked about this in our new podcast episode about web dev so if you want to hear more about my tech stack, tune it!

Firebase++ 🔥

I've been an avid user of Firebase in the past, and with their recent changes that were announced during the Firebase summit it becomes again more appealing to some devs.

There's a great summary video about the new Firebase features on the Fireship channel,


🤓 Interesting

👉 The Web’s Next Transition

Got some time? Read about what Kent C Dodds thinks about the web and where it's heading in this super in-depth long article about the web's next transition!

👉 Do you like Roadmaps?

If you are to dev or want to start in a new field, it's always hard to get an idea of what you need to learn. Found this gem with tons of roadmaps recently and it's all free!

👉 Capacitor 4.4 is out!

Feels like there's a new minor version of Ionic or Capacitor every week lately - this week it's Capacitor 4.4 with some cool changes especially regarding the build command of the CLI.


👋 Your Turn

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Happy Coding,
Simon

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