5 Ways to Improve Your Coding Skills with ChatGPT

Tips and Tricks for Developers

RayRay
7 min readApr 5, 2023

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Are you a developer looking to improve your craft? Look no further than ChatGPT! In this blog post, we’ll outline five tips for using ChatGPT to become a better developer, including brainstorming solutions to application problems, spotting errors in code, explaining code functionality, writing better tests, and improving code readability.

1. ChatGPT helps you brainstorm why a problem is caused in your application

My team and I encountered an issue in our application where data needed to be included, and models still needed to update. We work in an Angular environment.

Let me share a situation where I discovered the power of discovering solutions and problems in an application.

Situation: Subscription didn’t exist

After manually searching for what could happen, we took the leap and started asking questions to ChatGPT. We started with this question. (sorry, I can’t show you a screenshot because it’s lost with an error of ChatGPT lately 🥲)

We are using RxJS; we have a BehaviourSubject, but at the start, the data is received by the subscribe method, but later it isn’t. What could be the…

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RayRay
RayRay

Written by RayRay

I’m a 🇳🇱 lead frontend developer who writes about WebDev | JavaScript | TypeScript | Vuejs | Web Components | Design Systems | NuxtJS | StencilJS | CSS