Re:JavaScript development is not fun for me anymore
by watwut on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @04:56PM
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Do you state in you job ads that it is meteor position? Some self selection of applicants might help - you don't need someone super excited, just someone responsible and willing to do that work. At least, that is how our company found long term people for unpopular positions. Turned out they exists, just are hidden and don't know your job is match.
(I personally don't mind working with less popular tech part of time as long as I also work with something that sounds good in CV.)
We still had to maintain them though as the clients had no money to what would effectively revamp the entire stack to something a lot more maintainable.
Working with a (relatively) unpopular & outdated framework seriously took its toll on both the quality and the developer passion. We had a few really talented people leave simply to avoid working on these projects.
Edit: To echo sixsence's sentiment: Our React & Redux projects have proven themselves to be very resilient over the past few years.