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If you have 10 years of experience and still think of yourself as "a backend guy", you're doing something massively wrong. No offense. Your skills should be ap
by wayn3 9y ago
If you have 10 years of experience and still think of yourself as "a backend guy", you're doing something massively wrong.
No offense. Your skills should be applicable across the board. You either have a confidence issue or haven't developed skills that are in line with your experience.
There's no reason for you to not be able to " move to front-end ", although I don't get why anyone would want to do that. It's an undocumented mess, dominated by hipsterish framework cults.
This is going to be offensive to the front-end crowd, but if you need a new framework every other month, at some point you have to realise that the underlying technology is garbage and needs to be replaced.
I've gone through the react tutorial multiple times and I still don't get it. I don't get how to build it (webpack info npm or whatever), I don't get how to do things because there is no documentation. And that's not because im slow. Yesterday I picked up ethereum from scratch, evaluated three of their languages and deployed my first smart contract on a 4 hour train ride. And ethereum isn't exactly well documented either.
But try googling react api and enjoy the non-results. Impossible to understand unless you're part of the cult. Requires full immersion. Front-end seems to have gone full retard and citizens of the internet know to never go full retard.
Nothing compares to the mess that is front-end development.
- ice109 9y agoI have no clue what you're talking about re docs - i went from zero front-end experience to having a working spa with router and redux and material components in like 2 weeks after going through the react training tut and abramov's redux videos on egghead - maybe you're the one that's not good as you think. people dramatically exaggerate how "messy" the react ecosystem is. you can figure everything out by using chrome dev tools with the react and redux extensions and a little chatting on #reactjs. but whatever more full stack jobs for me I guess.
- wayn3 9y agoyou needed - the react training - abramovs redux videos on egghead - chrome dev tools - chrome react extension - chrome redux extension - a chatroom full of experts that kind of confirms that the docs suck. i'm not competing for "full stack" jobs. enjoy 'em.
- _Tev 9y agoGosh, you sound like there's nothing to learn on backend. Seriously, maybe more humility will help you improve. Frontend is super easy to learn for beginners (anecdotal evidence of me and like 4 other friends/guys I know). And MDN is vastly superior to e.g. python docs I've encountered so far, or heard/seen from my python friends.