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Vudo, a open source todo app or how I learn react, serverless and graphql

Introducing my newest project an open source todo app called vudo written in Javascript running on AWS lambda. Obligatory keywords for recruiter. It also uses graphql, dynamodb, react and redux

A little background

One of my goals for this year is to get serious about my productivity. Over the years, I have read enough books on productivity to learn that being productive is to figure out what the most important thing to work on and work on it effectively. It’s very easy to work hard on the wrong things, for example, checking and replying to email can seem like real work but you are much more productive working on your core competency.

Another goal is to launch something and learn some new technologies during the process. I’ve wanted to (re)learn react, graphql, serverless and css. Yes, I’m one of the full stack developer that are more 90% stack because I don’t understand CSS. This would be the year that I learn CSS. Throw in react native to the mix to get some mobile development exposure and the list seems really daunting. Surely, I need something to track my to do, project, goals, etc.. in order to accomplish this, right?

Then it dawns on me. I will create a to do app.

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