Today was another day where I took a bit of time off, but I did get a chance to get into Party Overflow in the evening. I was able to complete the Signup portion of the app.
I did learn something interesting as I was combing through the CSS code for the Avatar selection popup in Party Overflow - and this I was asked in an interview but I had never encountered it before neither on my own or in class - z-index.
This is super cool - it is basically the move to front and send backwards entity in...everything basically haha the layers on a page. I suppose my elements never overlapped in CSS so. I also don't really use the position. I'll have to work on adding these to my repertoire.
The other thing I learned about through Party Overflow today is about Lottie, an animation library by Airbnb. It's installable with a node module package and you can use it in a jsx file, pass it as props, import it, et viola! You have an animated image! As I was writing this, I was like wait a second, how is it an animated image? And I checked out the code - it's a .json file of a vector image. I presume it's animatable from there? The animation component has loop, play, speed, and style in it. I'm not really sure how it interacts with this .json file.
Anyways I'd like to sleep so that I can do more studying tomorrow. Hope I get to some more Data Structures and Algorithms tomorrow.