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Have followed the trends and I now know Ember, Angular(both legacy and new), Vue(with and without typescript), and React(both classes and hooks). I've also used

Have followed the trends and I now know Ember, Angular(both legacy and new), Vue(with and without typescript), and React(both classes and hooks). I've also used Svelte, and Stencil JS in my personal projects. In addition, I've also dived headfirst into GraphQL and Typescript pretty heavily lately. Do I regret investing time in learning any of those frameworks or technologies? Not at all. It was fun and interesting at the time I learned something different from each of them. Perhaps the most valuable thing I learned was that it is worthwhile to evaluate new technologies and to continue learning new things. Does it devalue me as an Engineer to learn many things as opposed to becoming an expert in a single tech stack? Much the opposite. A lot of the underlying principles and architecture remain the same and yet, I find each framework offers something new. Whether it's questioning some convention, or approaching a problem with a different paradigm, or just being heavily opinionated, I feel like I gained some value from each of these and had fun while doing so.

koheripbal 6y ago
The downside probably being that an employer paid you during that time of learning and didn't get much work product out of it. Learning for the sake of learning is an infinite endeavour. I try to practice strategic learning - learning skills/frameworks/topics that will have a high likelihood of being used in the course of my current project. There's just so so much out there... focus is everything.
- jaeming 6y ago
  I am actually paid by my employer to do 5 hours of training per week. It's required and I am allowed to study anything I want, whether it's a new framework or a self-improvement book. I usually spend that time studying something that I think may be useful or related to my job but I have been encouraged to explore. My employer is a big believer that innovation comes from exploration. As you pointed out, it is an infinite endeavor. I'm okay with that. If I just stuck with the current technologies that were used when I first came in, we'd probably still be using jQuery and .ERB templates. Instead I personally pushed for using new technologies and my team is personally responsible for introducing Vue, Typescript, and GraphQL to our stack among other technologies.

koheripbal 6y ago

The downside probably being that an employer paid you during that time of learning and didn't get much work product out of it. Learning for the sake of learning is an infinite endeavour. I try to practice strategic learning - learning skills/frameworks/topics that will have a high likelihood of being used in the course of my current project. There's just so so much out there... focus is everything.

jaeming 6y ago
I am actually paid by my employer to do 5 hours of training per week. It's required and I am allowed to study anything I want, whether it's a new framework or a self-improvement book. I usually spend that time studying something that I think may be useful or related to my job but I have been encouraged to explore. My employer is a big believer that innovation comes from exploration. As you pointed out, it is an infinite endeavor. I'm okay with that. If I just stuck with the current technologies that were used when I first came in, we'd probably still be using jQuery and .ERB templates. Instead I personally pushed for using new technologies and my team is personally responsible for introducing Vue, Typescript, and GraphQL to our stack among other technologies.