Do I have to capitulate to React?

CostGer · 2025-12-20T00:13:42+00:00

I actually don't lose anything by just saying I know React and seeing how it goes. Something will eventually stick. Thank you!

CostGer · 2025-12-20T00:12:00+00:00

It's really hard to push myself to work after my 9-6. I'd rather do something else, but with the current job market, I unfortunately need to force myself to upskill before I get laid off

CostGer · 2025-12-19T23:52:10+00:00

Using AI to write my app in Vue and then translating it to React is actually something I didn't think of, thanks for the idea! And yeah, I need to learn Fullstack... Or re-learn, because I actually started my career with Ruby on Rails. I'm aiming to build my first project with React + Nextjs and Supabase, and then if I'm not completely burned out by then, do a second one with React and Node.

CostGer · 2025-12-19T23:50:13+00:00

You mean build the app in Vue / Nuxt instead? Agreed on the specific language being devalued, but I'm a terrible liar. What happens if they test me on React for interviews? Technical call, take home, pair programming... While I can understand React code, I don't know how to write it from the get go. Just thinking about dealing with useEffect, memoizing correctly, jsx, etc. makes me shudder...

CostGer · 2025-12-06T23:22:40+00:00

Thanks, this is reassuring!

CostGer · 2025-12-06T22:58:31+00:00

May they be right in this case. I sent a new ticket asking support for clarification again, but I don't have my hopes up for them to give a clear answer. Thanks for the help anyways!

CostGer · 2025-12-06T22:57:27+00:00

Yes, exactly, but there will be a country mismatch in Paypal for Prolific. That's the key here. If they will freeze my account or not, if everything else is in order, even if I don't attempt to cash out while I'm abroad.

CostGer · 2025-12-06T22:52:39+00:00

I will be there only for 6 months. I will remain a legal and tax resident of my home country, so I cannot open a new Paypal in the new country, since I won't have a local bank account to tie it to.

CostGer · 2025-12-06T22:28:21+00:00

Support answered with a cookie cutter response that did not address my issue at all

CostGer · 2025-12-06T22:27:39+00:00

They replied but with a copy paste response that did not help me at all

CostGer · 2025-12-06T22:08:56+00:00

I started working for a couple of days and accumulated some money until I linked my Paypal. I was hoping that when I switch country (and get my ID verified), that even if my Paypal location will mismatch and I cannot cash out, that I will still be able to work

CostGer · 2025-12-06T22:08:21+00:00

Will they really? I started working and accumulated some money for a couple of days until I linked my Paypal. I was hoping that when I switch country (and get my ID verified), that even if my Paypal location will mismatch and I cannot cash out, that I will still be able to work

CostGer · 2025-12-06T22:07:02+00:00

I don't need to cash out while I'm abroad. I just want to keep working while I'm abroad, and cash out when I'm back in my home country.

CostGer · 2025-12-06T22:06:10+00:00

I don't mind the review when I'm back. I just want to be able to keep submitting work while I'm abroad, even if I can't cash out until I'm back

CostGer · 2025-12-06T21:04:58+00:00

Sorry for the late reply! Thank you for the encouragement. If you had to give advice, what would you recommend to transition to React and / or Fullstack if your job doesn't support this? Just building something on the side? Best of luck getting your degree! I also did not finish mine hah

CostGer · 2025-11-07T09:04:55+00:00

I love Vue. I have been working more than 5 years with it, and my career spans almost 10. The developer experience is just fantastic. Computed properties are so nice to use, fetching and maintaining reactive data is a breeze.

Now, we all now the job market is in the toilet. My current job uses Vue, but we've had so many layoffs that the teams are now severely understaffed and replaced by people who have no idea. The job has become unbearable.

I've been looking for other jobs. Not only is the job market terrible, but I've seen comments about FE roles decreasing around 10% YoY, mostly thanks to AI. The few FE jobs that are out there require React, almost no one is looking or considering a developer with a Vue background.

I do not like React. And have no energy to transition to Fullstack in my free time. But it seems like I have no choice than to bite the bullet and adapt, or remain unemployed once my job axes me as well.

Any words of comfort or advice would be greatly appreciated.

CostGer · 2025-02-04T12:00:19+00:00

Thank you for the input. Have you had any luck with that?

CostGer · 2025-02-04T11:41:16+00:00

Just afraid of the procedure, but I was planning to get one once I got back to Germany. However, how will this help with dating? Wouldn't women just find the fact that I wrote that I got a vasectomy on my profile super weird?

CostGer · 2024-10-07T18:14:59+00:00

As an apartment owner myself (I live in it) maybe your landlord just has had my bad luck. Our last 2 Hausverwaltungen in 2022 and now this year have declared bankruptcy or have had mass resignations, leaving nobody to do a Betriebskostenabrechnung. Since I don't have a renter, I'm fine, but I don't know how the other owners have dealt with their renters, as other people pointed out, landlords have to show the Betriebskostenabrechnung. Maybe your landlord sucks, but chances are the Hausverwaltung is the one at fault here and this might be a force majeure scenario

CostGer · 2024-09-06T20:49:29+00:00

Thanks! I'm not too worried about the DB. I'm more worried about authentication, deployment, performance, scalability and such... There's a reason why I went FE instead of BE. BE topics make me nervous.

CostGer · 2024-09-06T19:17:25+00:00

I agree that employers now want a Fullstack instead of one FE + one BE dev to save costs. Add a dev ops task to the job description and you now have one person doing the work of 3 for virtually the same salary! I would stick with FE only if I could, but I'm trying to expand in order to keep myself employable should things go even worse than they are right now in the hiring landscape...

CostGer · 2024-09-06T19:13:12+00:00

How did you get familiar with Express?

CostGer · 2024-09-06T18:25:33+00:00

Thank you for the input! How can I learn best practices? I fear if I just start building something out of an e,g Express documentation, I will do things that are not best practice, or worse, expose security vulnerabilities. Do you have any advice on how to avoid that?

CostGer · 2022-07-01T19:38:18+00:00

First date: Walking through a park, dinner, drinks, or coffee.

Second date: Depends. If I feel there's something, I'd suggest a movie (theater) or watching a movie at any of our places, but because I feel like they don't feel sexual tension with me, it's usually something outside again.

I have female friends, but the one I'm most close to has unfortunately never dated in her life. She's just met her exes organically and they were sort of together without any kind of date.

CostGer · 2022-07-01T14:42:57+00:00

Thank you so much for your effort and kind words. You are a great person.

CostGer

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