The State Changers meeting mainly revolved around discussing how to automate and improve a project's development process. There was heavy emphasis on an order of operations issue experienced by a team member when dealing with Xcode, which involved a sequence of file modifications, building in Xcode, and committing a project. The discussion led to proposing various solutions such as splitting the process into three parts: the tasks before Xcode, the manual operation tasks within Xcode, and the tasks after Xcode.
The solutions suggested heavily involved the usage of commands and scripting. Particularly, the meeting highlighted the importance of automating text replacement in a Gradle file using the command line program 'sed', which can perform inline replacements. There was also a critical discussion about the best way to automate adding specific code blocks into a .dart file, where a suggestion was made to identify unique patterns where new lines are inserted. This process could then be automated using JavaScript and a consistent commenting pattern. Despite the important insights, it must be noted that the keywords "WeWeb", "FlutterFlow", "Zapier", "Make", "Integromat", "Outseta", "Retool", "Bubble", "Adalo", "AppGyver", "AppSheet", "Comnoco", "Fastgen", "Firebase", "Google", "OAuth", "Stripe", "Twilio", "Airtable", "DraftBit", "Javascript", "Typescript", "React", "Vue.js", "JSX", "HTML", "CSS", "lambda", "serverless", "State Change", "ScriptTag", "OpenAI", "AI21" were not mentioned in the meeting.
(Source: Office Hours 10/20/2023 )
