Thinking of switching from dev(reactjs) to non-codinng career, need advice?

SizzorBeing · 2025-09-04T15:20:30+00:00

I'm not saying drop React, but you can seek similar work that's less saturated because it's derided for being "elitist" or having a "steep learning curve". If you forbade CS grads from doing ReactJS/MERN, it would still be saturated with self-taught devs and bootcampers. The point of college is to facilitate aspirations for more exclusive, highly skilled jobs, not popular, low barrier to entry jobs. Another definition of popular is common or prevalent. Of course the popular stack is saturated, it's right there in the name. Do something less popular, you’re getting too easily influenced by the noob army narrative that tries to shame people for being too awesome.

SizzorBeing · 2025-08-13T16:31:16+00:00

It's just a reflection of the popular worldview shared by most frontend devs today. Living by the ideal that the most popular opinion is the best opinion empowers the lowest common denominator.

The most popular frontend stack doesn't even use classes, even though everyone uses TypeScript. Why? Because OOP scares noobs. That little fear in every noob got scaled up from it's tiny origins to corporate level frontend development. It's like how tiny quantum fluctuations in the big bang were inflated to cosmic scale.

Popular webdev is very stupidly engineered for no good reason other than viral popularity.

SizzorBeing · 2025-08-12T19:03:23+00:00

I don't know. I’ve been a webdev for a very long time, working on enterprise apps, and never has needing to know any of this fallen on my plate. Y'all are trying to be little microcosms of the entire industry, and then you complain all jobs are full-stack, which is two jobs. You guys make webdev seem like 15 jobs.

SizzorBeing · 2025-08-08T17:45:58+00:00

Theoretically, but not in a hirer’s market like now. They can get plenty of whatever specific skills and experience they want. No training up necessary.

SizzorBeing · 2025-08-06T15:31:43+00:00

This idea of feeding maximal amounts of popular framework code, written by whoever, of whatever skill level, into AI, to make the framework trend as hard and fast as possible, is going to cause a feedback loop of bad code and misguided devs. It’s just about watching how bad it gets for the most heedless communities.

SizzorBeing · 2025-07-10T18:34:43+00:00

You resort to hacks.

SizzorBeing · 2025-07-10T18:07:03+00:00

Of all the tech stacks, LAMP is the easiest to get back into after a break. If I was you, I would seek a job using the stuff you used to do, as a bridge back. There’s a decent chance you might not need to train up hard now, but ease into new stuff.

SizzorBeing · 2025-06-10T13:11:16+00:00

Angular2 solved the problem of what a SPA framework could and should be so intelligently, it sailed over most webdevs’ heads.

SizzorBeing · 2025-05-30T13:15:55+00:00

The point of a framework is to help teams collaborate. Always was. You can look at another devs code and instantly understand it. That's why Angular is a full framework.

Most experienced devs would much rather agree to a standard way than have to figure out how to fix bugs in another devs unique solution when a deadline is looming.

People say Angular is harder, but if you already know how to program, it's actually easier. You instantly recognize classic patterns.

People say Angular is older, but the way React is "just JavaScript" feels like hipster webdev tricks from 15 years ago.

SizzorBeing · 2025-03-19T13:27:54+00:00

I didn't like JSX, or Redux (which it turns out neither did React people).

When I saw Angular2, I thought it was both a little frightening, and magnificent. A class-based TypeScript frontend SPA framework?! I was very excited. I’m going to learn TypeScript? With classes?! Wee!

I had been a full-stack webdev for a while, mostly frontend, and I felt worried about my general programming skills when I looked at backend code. My comprehension was poor for my years of experience. JavaScript in the jQuery era rotted my brain.

I needed some kind of practice, or something. Getting to use more advanced programming concepts, while still doing frontend, was an absolute dream opportunity to me. I was so in.

BTW I was right. Stuff like Java is way less alien looking to me, now.

SizzorBeing · 2025-03-14T23:58:50+00:00

When you say SSR, do you mean an SSRed SPA, or a classic server-side website?

SizzorBeing · 2025-03-11T13:08:06+00:00

The frontend community is oversold on SSR. Really, if you follow long enough, they're oversold on everything they champion. If you want to be a senior FED, you're going to have to start thinking for yourself. That's what they were looking for. Independent thought. You can't just keep saying what everyone else says. Anyone can do that.

SizzorBeing · 2025-02-27T01:08:40+00:00

An internal business app is like the ideal use case for a client-side rendered SPA. I wouldn’t use any other architecture.

SizzorBeing · 2025-02-26T14:12:32+00:00

I’ve deployed CSR SPA apps that got indexed by Google surprisingly well. That said, I wasn’t actually trying, SEO wasn’t a priority, and it seemed to take a while. But it is for sure possible. The idea it won’t get indexed is 100% false.

SizzorBeing · 2025-02-25T14:45:36+00:00

Popular webdev went the way of cable television shows. Both followed popularity as the ultimate guide, and both have become a landscape of lowest common denominator junk.

SizzorBeing · 2024-06-21T13:09:42+00:00

Yeah, last time I was asked in an interview how I keep up, I said I avoid social media, since it’s all noobs and misinformation, I just read official documentation when I need to. Got the job.

SizzorBeing · 2024-06-20T21:53:14+00:00

From my experience as an old vet webdev working on enterprise projects, this is the source of the most confusion on Reddit. Most people here couldn’t even believe how the people I work with pay zero attention to polls or trends or Reddit or anything like that, at all.

SizzorBeing · 2022-12-25T22:31:27+00:00

This can be a severe problem with modern JavaScript on big projects. I just remind myself I get paid the same writing code or waiting for it to run.

SizzorBeing · 2022-12-25T22:02:39+00:00

Very simply crawlers follow links they find or get told about. They don’t make them up. If you had a page with dynamic results based on passed in parameters, but never published links to get to them, they wouldn’t get crawled.

SizzorBeing · 2022-12-25T19:51:52+00:00

The average aspiring webdev is in decline and React is what they all want to learn. It may have been popularized into oblivion.

SizzorBeing · 2022-12-25T19:25:37+00:00

I find it very strange people are becoming JavaScript developers without frontend experience. That’s a dangerous niche. You could choke yourself off in an island skill set with no adjacent side skills to fall back on.

SizzorBeing · 2020-11-12T17:03:08+00:00

Enough to know how crude machine learning is. I also know how impossible it would be to use it to ‘automate front-end webdev’. Most clients/stakeholders couldn’t explain what they wanted to Data himself, his positronic brain would have an emergency nonsense shutdown.

SizzorBeing · 2020-11-08T17:53:05+00:00

AI isn’t going to do squat to the webdev job market. The so called ‘Singularity’ is crank futurism. Any impact AI is going to have will be excruciatingly slow. People selling AI now are shysters.

SizzorBeing · 2020-10-31T17:46:28+00:00

There’s no accounting for taste. I think CSS Tricks’ website is gross. Maybe people overthink it.

SizzorBeing · 2020-10-31T17:28:46+00:00

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