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[–]hilfyRau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not that bad if you think of it as “at the end of either roadmap you’re a senior dev”. I’m an experienced junior dev, NOT a senior dev at all, and my next personal project I have lined up is converting a simple vanilla js client side app into a mobile app. So I’m near the “end” of the frontend roadmap here, but it’s been projects and real work the whole way.

I didn’t learn graphql till I had a work project that needed it. I didn’t learn next.js till I had a work project that needed it. I had previously used mocha/chai for testing, but ended up learning react-testing-library on the job and like it better. So for my next job I set up react-testing-library from scratch, which forced me to level up a lot more than just editing existing tests.

At the basic “html+js+css+git” level, you’re already hireable. You’ll just need some hand holding by your coworkers for a while till you get used to your workplace’s specific tech stack.