Making Pulled Pork with React Native, Expo, and Express
The takeaway piece at the end really hit-home for me:<p><pre><code>    I think it’s important to work some fun into programming projects.
    Give yourself permission to build something that already exists,
    if only to learn how to build it yourself. It doesn’t have to be
    a big serious project, or a perfect portfolio piece.
    
    And on that note, don’t be afraid to hack things together. It’s
    a fun project! Write some terrible code that you know is terrible.
    Don’t stress so much about perfect abstractions and Best Practices
    and feeling like you have to incorporate every new library and tool.
    It’ll be fine. You can always refactor it when you write the blog post ;)
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I can&#x27;t even count the number of similar, fun projects I&#x27;ve started... but which turned into stress centers that felt more like chores than leisure, causing them to never be completed. Often I end up worrying about the &quot;best&quot; way to do something or start planning for when the project is huge and needs to be well formed; paralyzed before I even get the code working.