Coffee & Code Newsletter: #22

Welcome to Coffee and Code with me, Dan Vega. This newsletter is a little insight into what I was up to this week, things I found interesting and anything on my radar for the upcoming week. If you missed last week's newsletter you can checkout Coffee and Code #21 here. If you don't already have a cup of coffee grab one now and let's get to it.

Previous Week

I'm back! Sorry for taking a few weeks off but I was super busy and I can't wait to tell you all about it. I hope all of your holidays were wonderful and you're all recharged and ready for the new year. I have a bunch to get into so let's do it.

CodeMash 2020

I was really busy over the holidays preparing for CodeMash. This was my very first time attending and speaking at CodeMash so I had my hands full. This was an amazing conference and I can't recommend it enough. I have two blog posts below that recap both the conference and my talk.

Start using Vue 3 in a project right now (Screencast)

So you've heard of Vue 3 and you want to start playing around with it but not sure where to start. Did you know that you can add Vue 3 to a new project using the Vue CLI? In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a new project using the Vue CLI and then using a new plugin, add Vue 3 Alpha to your project.

With Vue 3 installed we will walk through creating a new component using the Composition API. We will start by creating a simple Counter component and it might be a trivial example it does allow you to see the building blocks of Vue's new Composition API.

https://www.danvega.dev/blog/2020/01/17/start-using-vue3-today/

Grammarly Visual Studio Code Extension

In this tutorial, I am going to show you a new extension that brings Grammarly support to Visual Studio Code. Personally, I have been interested in Grammarly for Code for a long time now so you can imagine how excited I was to find out someone released an extension.

I will walk through how to find it, install it, use it and how you can customize it. I also show another extension that you might need to disable to get this to work properly. I have only been using Grammarly for Visual Studio Code for a few days now but it's already become one of my favorite extensions.

https://youtu.be/Pfmrs9F7S-g

7,000+ YouTube Subscribers

I hit another big milestone this week as I crossed 7,000 subscribers on YouTube. I want to thank all of you for subscribing and if you haven't yet, what are you waiting for 😉I uploaded two more videos this week and it's a constant learning process for me. I don't have a big room with natural light so I am always experimenting with new ways to record tutorials. If you have any feedback for me or tutorials you would like to see please don't hesitate reaching out.

http://www.youtube.com/therealdanvega

https://youtu.be/o-jiS563yI8

Around the Web

These are things I found cool around the web this week.

Articles

Videos

Podcasts

Syntax FM: Hasty Treat - A Month On Firefox

Courses

https://egghead.io/playlists/introduction-to-tailwind-and-the-utility-first-workflow-0b697b10

Projects

Until Next Week

Thanks for sitting down and sharing a cup of coffee with me my friend. I hope you enjoyed this installment of Coffee & Code and I will see you next Sunday morning. If you have any links you would like me to include please contact me and I might add them to a future newsletter. I hope you have a great week and as always friends...

Happy Coding
Dan Vega
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https://www.danvega.dev