Re:Ask HN: Returning to tech after 4 years?
by 1212321234321 on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:06PM
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React is my main stack as well! It seems like there's been a few changes since I last worked with it, but it's still relatively understandable.
Honestly, I'd be happy enough to write purely React code for the next 5 or 10 years, but I do find all of the extra skills required of a front-end developer to be completely mind numbing... Cloud deployments, build routines, databases, etc.
What skills/technologies do you think are mandatory to know in 2024?
Re:Ask HN: Returning to tech after 4 years?
by bosch_mind on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:23PM
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The same things. Ops, quality code, people skills, debugging, networking, multiple languages for multiple use cases based on whatever your company does, a little ML understanding and distributed systems.
The field moves fast, but fundamentals are forever
The industry changes pretty quickly but I can't think of anything too significant that's changed in the past four years. Also once you've learned enough tech it's not too hard to pick up something new quickly.
I knew basically no React when I was hired at my current job, I only knew Angular, and while they hired me for a client that wanted Angular, that fell through and they put me on a React team and I picked it up well enough to contribute more than bug fixes after like, two weeks, and now 3 years later I'm waaaay more comfortable with React than I ever was with Angular.