Working with others becomes a pretty necessary part of programming. One of which I've been doing a lot of recently and thought I'd share one part of my experience. 

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Unless you like doing everything for yourself and can somehow make a living off that(in which case can we switch lives?), you'll have to end up working with others. Others can be friends, coworkers, or complete strangers on the internet that you are willing to share private keys to accounts holding some crypto. 

Communication is key. Start up with a plan before you write a single damn line of code. You'll end up wasting a ton of time by not properly communicating. You might have done your part correctly, but be forced to wait nearly an eternity because the React developer out there didn't design their system as envisioned by you, and so you are waiting for them to fix their stuff to meet specs before you continue working and have taken up and finished other projects during that time as well as have deiced to write some blogs. Also for some stupid reason they chose React, the language of the gods that no mortal should ever touch, which you learn first hand by touching it and getting burnt.

It's hard getting your exact ideas onto words, especially when you don't live in the same time zones and neither of you is the best at explaining. But do try your best and create some user scenarios, as it does seem to have worked for me. 

Talk about what you are going to do, so you don't double up the time doing the same thing. Talking helps a lot. Thats my biggest point of this entire article. Have good communication with your team and it helps you tons. If not, it hurts you as you guys might be working on separate things that won't link up together at all.