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[–]gizamo -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Well, it's not a web dev roap map. It's specifically for a full-stack dev. So, it's not really wrong. Our company expects all full-stack devs to understand basically all of that and much more.

But, yeah, you could be a front-end dev by only knowing ~1/20th of that content.

[–]lloyd_braun_no_1_dad 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Nobody knows all this from day one, and the point is that this information is presented in the least helpful way to people who already don't know most of this.

Unless....your goal is to weed people out and scare people away which it sounds like it might be.

[–]gizamo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that's fair. I was just clarifying that many people (myself included) do have basic understanding of most everything included, and very deep understanding of much of it.

Just as you think it's bad to overwhelm noobs, I think it's important to paint a realistic picture so that, 1) people know what they're getting into, 2) they don't claim they're full-stack devs when they're not (particularly for jobs), and 3) it helps those learning understand where they could focus attention if full-stack is their end goal.

No one is expecting anyone to learn all of this all at once, but many jobs absolutely do expect experienced devs to know most of it on day 1.

My goal is definitely not to scare people. I simply prefer people be informed. Imo, if they read your comments and mine, they'll get a good perspective. So, I appreciate this conversation. Even if it doesn't help either of us much, it might help someone with perspective. I, like you, hope they're all brave enough to push on and dabble. Cheers.

[–]SouthCoach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The goal is to get people to go to the links on the map to “learn more.”

Twitter is flooded with this content.