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> Any dev worth their salt should know how to set up these tools from scratch anyway. Yeah, I don't agree with that kind of gate keeping. I've known plenty of
by mikewhy 6y ago
> Any dev worth their salt should know how to set up these tools from scratch anyway.
Yeah, I don't agree with that kind of gate keeping. I've known plenty of developers who are proficient with React, Redux, graphql, etc, but might not know where to begin when it comes to build tooling. Almost like they're totally different things.
And that's great that you trudge along with your own lesser version of create-react-app. I've personally built my own JS build toolchains and the second I used CRA I never wanted to look back.
- kingdomcome50 6y agoIs it gate keeping to suggest that developers should understand their tooling? I guess if we can agree the bar we are reaching for is "proficient", then yeah, I suppose a React dev doesn't need to understand how their project is built. There is nothing wrong with "proficient"! I work with lots of "proficient" developers. Great people. Good workers. I set the bar for myself quite a bit higher than that though. I mentor "proficient" developers because I know with a little push some of these developers can become "excellent". It's usually not for lack of ability that developers stagnate, rather, passion (relative to everything else), curiosity, and time. Sometimes I can bring that glint back into their eyes, sometimes not. Again, there is nothing wrong with that! Having a some reliable code monkeys around is, frankly, usually good for a business. And FWIW the longer you do this the more apparent it becomes that "less is more"!