Re:Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019
by toomanybeersies on Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:09PM
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I've been doing web development for around 3 years now. I probably don't know 50% of what's on this roadmap. Unless you're working as a sole developer on a project, you can get away with not knowing a whole lot of stuff.
I couldn't set up webpack for a project if my life depended on it. To be fair, I spend a lot more time doing back end development.
But even for the back end development pathway, I don't know anything about web sockets, GraphQL, message brokers, ElasticSearch et al, NoSQL, or caching with Memcached/Redis.
It's not that I couldn't learn how to use all of the above, but rather that it's just something I don't have to use at my job. Most employers don't/shouldn't require you to know these things in order to get a job, they are skills you can learn on the job.
The ability to learn is the most important skill an employee can have. The rest is just decoration.
I couldn't set up webpack for a project if my life depended on it. To be fair, I spend a lot more time doing back end development.
But even for the back end development pathway, I don't know anything about web sockets, GraphQL, message brokers, ElasticSearch et al, NoSQL, or caching with Memcached/Redis.
It's not that I couldn't learn how to use all of the above, but rather that it's just something I don't have to use at my job. Most employers don't/shouldn't require you to know these things in order to get a job, they are skills you can learn on the job.
The ability to learn is the most important skill an employee can have. The rest is just decoration.