First of all keep in mind that my suggestions and all of the other given here are relative since we have so much info.
Second, IMO what you need to do depends a lot on what they ask exactly from you. If they mean a faster website, do a lot of performance tests and optimisations on the product you are building.
If they mean UX and you feel you are not competent on that, dont feel bad about that. UX is not the same as UI, they are related but not the same and rarely people master all of the aspects of development, even fullstack developers or senior developers might not be good on that.
Im not saying you should not worry, you should be lazy, just saying dont get demoralized.
What you should do is:
Talk a lot with your other colleges and try to find through their words, your weak spots when it comes to web development.
After having identified those, make a todo list and set yourself some goals and focus on each point one at a time.
Read articles on the topics, watch online courses, etc.
Try to get as much info as possible and whenever you can implement what you have learned on your project/s.
Keep learning, keep practicing.
If after a while you see that still ifs difficult for you, go on and find a mentor online or it might be time for you to switch to another company with more developers. Sharing and discussing ideas with other developers is the best way to learn so if you see nothing else is working try switching jobs.
I have been in your place, worked for almost 1 year as the only developer for a project and i had same issues. The way i described you was how i got over them.
Thanks for sharing your experience, Braja. That's the thing I can expect from the community- the real experience. I will try to utilize the team communication and learning-practice paradigm.
One information I want to get from you- you said about online mentor. Did you follow that path? How can I find someone like that? I had a plan to go as full time freelancer after some time and then the team discussion will be unavailable actually. Or do you have other suggestions?
I took a lot of steps. Online mentoring i didnt persue since i switched jobs and was on a job where i had great developers all around me.
If you want to follow the online mentoring path, there are some alternatives, codementor, codingcoach, and probably even others (these ones i have heard about).
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First of all keep in mind that my suggestions and all of the other given here are relative since we have so much info.
Second, IMO what you need to do depends a lot on what they ask exactly from you. If they mean a faster website, do a lot of performance tests and optimisations on the product you are building.
If they mean UX and you feel you are not competent on that, dont feel bad about that. UX is not the same as UI, they are related but not the same and rarely people master all of the aspects of development, even fullstack developers or senior developers might not be good on that.
Im not saying you should not worry, you should be lazy, just saying dont get demoralized.
What you should do is:
Talk a lot with your other colleges and try to find through their words, your weak spots when it comes to web development.
After having identified those, make a todo list and set yourself some goals and focus on each point one at a time.
Read articles on the topics, watch online courses, etc.
Try to get as much info as possible and whenever you can implement what you have learned on your project/s.
Keep learning, keep practicing.
If after a while you see that still ifs difficult for you, go on and find a mentor online or it might be time for you to switch to another company with more developers. Sharing and discussing ideas with other developers is the best way to learn so if you see nothing else is working try switching jobs.
I have been in your place, worked for almost 1 year as the only developer for a project and i had same issues. The way i described you was how i got over them.
Thanks for sharing your experience, Braja. That's the thing I can expect from the community- the real experience. I will try to utilize the team communication and learning-practice paradigm.
One information I want to get from you- you said about online mentor. Did you follow that path? How can I find someone like that? I had a plan to go as full time freelancer after some time and then the team discussion will be unavailable actually. Or do you have other suggestions?
Hello,
I took a lot of steps. Online mentoring i didnt persue since i switched jobs and was on a job where i had great developers all around me.
If you want to follow the online mentoring path, there are some alternatives, codementor, codingcoach, and probably even others (these ones i have heard about).