April 8 2022

Getting angry and lost what I know

Yesterday, I started working on an angular project. After using react for a month. I created the project. After some minutes I want to create an angular component using angular-cli.

Then I go back into the terminal and type this.

$ ng n c components/header

I got an error It say

The new command requires to be run outside of a project, but a project definition was found at /home/abraham/code/angular …/angular.json

Then I say to myself what the hell? I just want an angular component and I don’t have to run outside from the project. It does not work.

As usual I just paste the error in google. And I get some stackoverflow and github pages. I looked at them and I found nothing.

Now I start getting angry. Because I did it millions of times before.

I was overconfident that I know what I’m doing. After a 30 minutes battle with myself. I look at what I wrote in my terminal and I notice I use “n” instead of “g”. It takes me a millisecond to realize my mistake. I say Ohh shit, Are you kidding me, how I don’t see this?

The answer was being overconfident and getting angry. Without thinking again what I type.

The “n” argument is used for creating a new project. And “g” is for generating components, modules, and services. In this case I have to use “g” in order to create a new component.Then I change it to “g” and it works.

Every programmer has these kinds of moments, not just one time, a dozen times. The best way to deal with them is calming yourself and thinking again about what we wrote.

The computer was never wrong. We are.