Landing a front-end job is hard. We’ve had an open position at my company for about 3 weeks now, and it’s gotten almost 100 applicants. That’s a lot of competition, no matter how good of a developer you are and how passionate / motivated you might feel. I think the market is especially tough for junior and mid-level front-end developers right now. Throughout the last few years we’ve seen a rise in…
React is awesome. It’s the most popular front-end framework for building modern web applications. And yes, it’s technically “just” a library - but it’s almost always used as a framework, so referring to it as such generally makes life easier. React pioneered the idea of using components as “building blocks”. The idea that each component is it’s own little unit that can compose with other…