2019 year in review

I managed to achieve in 2019 much more of what I've done in 2018, here's an overview of what I have learned, created & some random facts.

Learning

React hooks
React native navigation
React native config
Fastlane
SSR, static SSR, CSR, Pre-rendering
Styled-system
Theme UI
ZEIT now
Semantic commits
Removed redux & recompose, switched to Hooks & Context API.
Tried React VR (360)
Tried Ruby and Ruby on rails
Configuring Nginx, redirecting http to https after generating and adding the SSL cert
Circle & Travis CI
Detox and cypress for e2e testing
testing-library (for React and React native)
Apollo client
Airtable
Contentful
GraphQL
Tried Docker
Pagination with mongoose-paginate
tried Redis
Mixpanel
tried Sinatra

Contributed in building 3 platforms at my previous job, Barmej, Pawp & a foundation's website that support up to 6 languages using Gatsby & Contentful as a headless CMS while working for Obytes.
Continued adding features, fixing bugs & improving Beaf until I decided to shut it down and open source the code bases.
Built & shipped Ai Hashtags, an Android & iOS app to generate precise hashtags from your pictures & Instagram posts. Contributed more to Gatsby & few other JavaScript libraries, got some free swag in return.
Decided & managed to write an article a month, that's a total of 12 articles!
Gave 3 talks about Gatsby js, in Casablanca & Penang island.
Mentored few folks on Twitter who managed to get their first jobs.
Created react-flex-ready
Created a Gatsby theme gatsby-theme-portfolio
Bunch of Gatsby starters

Resigned from my first job, after 2.3 years working as a remote front-end developer
Replaced my Nexus 6p phone with Google Pixel 2
Traveled to Southeast Asia for 2.5 months, visiting Kuala Lumpur, Penang in Malaysia and Bali in Indonesia.
Visited grandma
Joined a new company as a full stack developer.
Fell in love
Got the opportunity to talk with ZEIT's CEO who's also the creator of mongoose & socket.io along with his team, to try out ZEIT now & share my honest feedback, then they decided to sponsor one of their community meetups here in Morocco.
Moved from my parents' basement to a new place, got a new monitor, desk (adjustable height), chair & macBook pro.
Got many offers which I declined in a respectful way but recommended my friends who I trust could do a great job.
First time invited to speak at a Moroccan podcast about the JAM stack
Made 2515 contributions on GitHub

Will keep editing this article until January ends I usually do.