Sebastien Castiel

Was skeptical of AI coding after trying Copilot once.

Forced myself to use Cursor for 2 hours on real work. Completely changed my mind.

Good prompting is its own craft. Now I love these tools but have no clue what my job looks like in 5 years.

betweentheprompts.com/two-hours/

Already 300 downloads for Spliit.app iOS application 🤗

Create a demo of “Here is how I used AI to help me refactor this ton of legacy code”, I can just imagine how people will love it/you 😉

(But it might not be sexy, indeed…)

‎Spliit - Shares Expenses ‎Spliit is a hassle-free, ad-free app to split expenses seamlessly with friends and family! Whether it’s for trips, dinners, or any shared cost, Spliit helps manage contributions with custom group fea...

I started Spliit.app, my open source alternative to Splitwise, a year ago.
This week, I released a first beta of the mobile app 🥳 apps.apple.com/us/app/splii...

Pull Requests and Code Review: Strategies, Techniques, and Best Practices for Collaboration Unlock the secrets to masterful pull requests and collaborative code reviews with practical insights from years of experience, all packed in one comprehensive guide!

200 downloads already for my new book!

I listed all the advice I gave to developers about pull requests and code review over my years of experience and just put everything into a short guide (37 pages).

Download it for free and tell me what you think about it! scs.tl/book-pr

13 tips for better Pull Requests and Code Review Would you like to become better at crafting pull requests and reviewing code? Here are the 13 tips from my latest book that you can use in your daily developer activity.

Would you like to become better at crafting pull requests and reviewing code?

Here are the 13 tips from my latest book that you can use in your daily developer activity: scastiel.dev/13-tips-for-...

There is something coming next week 🤫

Intro to React Server Components and Actions with Next.js React is living something these days. Although it was created as a client UI library, it can now be used to generate almost everything from the server. And we get a lot from this change, especially wh...

Server Components & Server Actions make the user and the developer experience better. A bit early to say they’ll change the way we build web apps on the long term, but I would take that bet!

📝 My new blog post about React and @nextjs.org! https://scastiel.dev/server-components-actions-react-nextjs

My post about the new learning path I propose for React made it to the featured posts of the week on @dev.to 🎉

👉 https://dev.to/scastiel/a-better-learning-path-for-react-with-server-components-5ebn

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I just wrote a short post with my thoughts about how React Server Components and @nextjs.org can help us teach/learn React a better way: https://scastiel.dev/better-learning-path-react

I have the ⚙️ icon at the top right in the “My feeds” section. May not be the best UX, but it’s there 😊

I don’t know if it’s related, but you don’t need the “staging” anymore 😉 https://bsky.app/

I just wrote a short post with my thoughts about how React Server Components and @nextjs.org can help us teach/learn React a better way: https://scastiel.dev/better-learning-path-react

Interested in being part of the first cohort and enjoy a discount? Or just want to know more without committing? Drop me a reply 👇 or contact me: scastiel.dev/contact

📕 The slides used during the workshop as a PDF document
⏭️ A list of ideas of what to learn next in your journey
🙋🏻‍♂️ A direct access to me to answer your questions about Next.js or React

🧠 Knowledge of Next.js’ and React’s basics
⚙️ The source code of a project you can use to bootstrap your future apps
🏠 Take-home exercises to put in practice what you learned, with solutions

It will be a remote workshop where after creating our first app, we’ll talk about authentication, databases, forms, and server components.

After two 3-hour sessions, you’ll leave with:

How is it different from other courses you can find? I take advantage of the latest React and Next.js features to offer a whole new path –a simpler one– to creating your first application. This is why you’ll learn React and Next.js at the same time, where other courses usually start w/ React alone.

Would you like to learn React and Next.js?

I’m designing a workshop to help developers who know HTML, CSS and JavaScript climb the next step and build their first full-stack application with the most popular framework today.

Here is the tweet mentioned: https://twitter.com/shadcn/status/1660338653305114625

Then, as a second step, you can learn client features to handle user interactions: local state, DOM events, forms… And it’s only now that you hear the word “hook” for the first time!

Even better: you learn how to fetch the data to display, from the inside component, without performing any additional request.

Learning server React first, without state and side effect management, just as a rendering engine, is already a huge step.

You discover JSX, conditionals & iterations, components, file-based routing, styling, etc.

I’m drafting a workshop to help beginners learn React and @nextjs.org, and I couldn’t agree more with 
the point @shadcn.com made on Twitter:

“An interesting side effect of RSC is that React is now actually easier to teach/learn.”

Sounds great! Subscribed ✅

I’ve seen both :)

Most likely a reference to the Quebec interjection “tabarnac”, derived from the word “tabernacle”.

⭐️ 5 reasons to get a frontend dev mentor:

1️⃣ Personalized learning
2️⃣ Expert knowledge
3️⃣ Job search help
4️⃣ Continuous support
5️⃣ Accountability & motivation

Excited to offer long-term mentoring for devs: 1-on-1 sessions, job guidance & unlimited chat support! 💻 🚀

👉 scastiel.dev/mentoring

I would even add:

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