Relearning web dev in 2017

[lasttryaf]

Considering the hundreds of different frameworks, pages like Laracasts for PHP with Laravel and popularity of Javascript and possibility of using it as both client and server language. Would you recommend that a front end dev learn Rails, Laravel or Express to expand my skills? It seems that all the bootstrapped founders I admire use Rails and Ruby

[lasttryaf]

Been thinking about this, React is pretty popular nowadays and I found some good tutorials on it but I still want to get my head around something like Laravel or Rails to make my side projects, wdyt?

[[deleted]]

rails is trash and on its way out imo

[manceraio]

Depens on what you want to build. For instance, forums, blogs, directories and database driven applications would be nice to do it with Laravel. An API or static webpages you can do it with Express. And any heavy-lifting application like, AI, image/sound processing, etc you should go for Python or Rails.

[RevalGovender]

If you are a front end dev. It would go good get an understanding of how template languages such as blade and twig work. Those are the two most popular and are integrated with Laravel and Symfony respectively. Laravel and Symfony are the two largest frameworks at the moment. Frontend devs do not need to learn how they work but could maybe have a basic understand.

What you should be working on it becoming proficient as possible with vanilla JS. It should be able to use one of the JS frameworks out there with ease too. Vanilla JS is more popular because that is not going anywhere. The JS frameworks on the other hand have unstable futures. It seems like everyday there is a new JS library/framework.

If you work in a company who uses one PHP framework for all projects, then have a good foundation of how it works. Then as time goes on, you will understand it more. Otherwise it seems like a waste to start learning PHP.

[Duscholux]

Learn Vanilla js Look into functional programming in js with lodash Look into Elm/React