🎃 Hacktoberfest 2021 Hype!

🎃 Hacktoberfest 2021 Hype!

One of my favorite ways to give back to the open source community - it only comes around once a year!

Posted on September 30, 2021

Well, Hacktoberfest 2021 starts tomorrow.

I was looking around the socials: on dev.to, Twitter, Instagram... and I gotta say...

Huh? Where's the hype?!

It's a graveyard out there! (Pun totally intended.) There's nearly no discussion or hype for Hacktoberfest, and it starts TOMORROW!

While I expect a lot more discussion and excitement tomorrow, it can't hurt to start the discussion off a bit early, right? So... here's what I got!

react-use-please-stay

I have a fun and simple React hook called usePleaseStay that helps you animate your favicon and title like so:

usePleaseStay() example

The repository is react-use-please-stay on GitHub.

I've opened a few possible issues that I think could be further optimizations to this hook! I hope you'll consider taking a look at them or tackling one!

Hope to see you all out there this October on the front lines of open source software! Have fun!

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Hi! I'm Chris Frewin, a full stack software engineer, entrepreneuer and educator!

Chris on Full Stack Craft's YouTube channel.

Ah... 😌 I still remember opening up my very first Bash terminal on Ubuntu... it was late summer, in Cornell's Engineering Quad... in short...

It was love
at first sight!

Ever since that first Ubuntu experience, I've been in love with writing software and I've learned an extensive variety of frameworks, databases, design patterns, and languages, including TypeScript, JavaScript, .NET, Python, React, Redux, ABAP, SAPUI5 UI5, C#, PHP7, Postgresql, Magento, and more. I love the challenge of building profitable SaaS products!

I'm also a full stack software educator. I cherish teaching what I've learned over the years, because I think software development is especially difficult these days, with all the new tools and frameworks that seem to come out daily.

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