Posted a tutorial for building a real-time cryptocurrency tracker using webhooks, React, Next.js and Node.js. May be useful for anyone looking for an example on how to use webhooks with these technologies. I included the example code in a repository as well.
Create a tutorial on how to dockerize a Node.js React app aimed at beginner developers. I kept the example simple so you can use it as a barebones project to build your own applications.
I am an American living in Japan and enjoying all the trials and struggles of living somewhere utterly different from where you grew up. In Japan I'm American, however back home I am Asian-American. Among Asian Americans I'm further subdivided into another category. I have very few close friends of my own ethnicity and those that I have I would consider as just Americans anyways. The thing is that even with people of my own ethnic group, I don't have much to relate to since I don't speak the language and I grew up somewhere completely different. I discovered after coming to Japan that the thing I relate to the most is being American. However it's funny that in the US I knew I was American but I always felt I had to put an asterisk on that or a hyphen since I wasn't part of the majority.
My point is that I've always felt as somewhat of an outsider no matter where I've gone, but still I have a concept of home and that is the US. I think it took going to somewhere completely different to REALLY cement my own self-identity and self-image.
Coming here I had no idea what I would come out identifying as culturally, but I think it should have been obvious that it's the place that I grew up in and spent most of my time despite feeling like an outsider at times.
I'm likely going to go back home soon for many reasons (culture differences, language barrier, heavily reduced respect/pay for programmers over here, missing friends/family) and I'm curious how I will handle the reverse culture shock. From this experience though I'll gained have a stronger identity and how important being an American is to that.
I also had this feeling of only learning about my own national/cultural identity by being the foreigner in another country. Suddenly you even realize there are things you're proud of, although you've never thought of yourself as being proud about your country before.
And I'm jealous that you know about the reverse culture shock. Gives you some time to prep for it. I'd be really curious if it helps. For me and probably many others the reverse shock was actually much worse. Took me about a year to get any kind of life back. And it was really disappointing that all the new things you've learned you couldn't just not really share with old friends and family, they don't really care. Otherwise they would've taken the trip with you, right? So for them you are not the smart, cool guy who managed to do something extraordinary, you're the idiot who did lots of crazy things and now pesters them with all of the experience they could have told him before would be troublesome and weird.
What helped a little was having contact with expats in the other direction who I could communicate with after returning face to face, and keeping all my friends from the foreign country at least digitally close by.
Good luck with returning! Hope it works better for you.
