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Ask HN: Best way to become a front end developer?

• lollipop25 11y ago
  > on why React.js is superior and I'm sold That's a one way road to disaster. Not because of React (React is a good tool) but because you get sold to hype that easily. - Easily succumbing to hype makes you think everything moves very fast. - When thinking things move very fast, you think you're slow. - When you think you're slow, you then think you're behind. - When you think you're behind, you give up. The web scene is a very fast and very unforgiving platform. The right thing today, might be the worst mistake tomorrow (like Crockford having wanted Object.create, but now despises it). > Part of my growing horror is the 4k line of jQuery + javascript mashup it's harder and harder to make changes and I just get plain lost on how I can add another developer without incurring huge costs. Learn dependency management and split up your code. There's a lot of implementations, as well as the standard ES6 modules. 4k is nothing to the horrors I have gone through. > anyways I want to get started I have dealt with meteor.js Oh, you know meteor? Why not stick to it? It's, IMO, the fastest way to prototype apps when you already know JS. Why not master it? > I'm interested to know how flux or reflux.js seems to fit in with react.js You don't really need React with Flux. In fact, I have used the Flux pattern on several different frameworks, even Angular and just Vanilla JS. > I'm also going to need some guide to get a huge array of acronyms and tools like bower, SASS (not SaaS), LESS and all these arguments about io.js, node.js. Stick to one that's used commonly. Again, don't be hype-driven. Just take your pace.