Re:The Case for React-Like Web Components
by tboyd47 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:51AM
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> They also make it easier to hire for that team.
At my last company, we found the opposite to be true. Switching to React made hiring all but impossible. Our Ruby devs mostly refused to learn the new stack and left, and most of the people we did hire to replace them were Java developers. I only met one hire who was immediately productive on our stack and she said it's because she had spent the past few months learning programming for 70 hours a week (!). She left 3 weeks later for a better paying job. Front-end development is absolutely bonkers right now.
At my last company, we found the opposite to be true. Switching to React made hiring all but impossible. Our Ruby devs mostly refused to learn the new stack and left, and most of the people we did hire to replace them were Java developers. I only met one hire who was immediately productive on our stack and she said it's because she had spent the past few months learning programming for 70 hours a week (!). She left 3 weeks later for a better paying job. Front-end development is absolutely bonkers right now.