Coming from a Wordpress/PHP background, I'd like to get more into JS Apps and other such things. How do you decide what framework to learn, what tools to learn, and how to manage all of the things you could learn with a 9-5, and other life obligations.
Any suggestions from the Dev.to community?
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Best place to learn in depth is on the job. You have real problems to solve, you have more motivation, potentially more access to resources, and you're forced to prioritize. I talk about this context of learning new language (Ruby) here: codewithoutrules.com/2017/09/09/le...
Learning based on job gives you one criteria for what to learn in depth. Another criteria is "what will move my career in a direction I care about". (If you're doing this in free time for fun, learn whatever you want, but sounds like this is for career purposes.)
Spend an hour a week learning about a broad set of technologies. Goal isn't to use them or play with them, but rather "I know this exists if I need it". I e.g. star github repos, for example, when they sound useful. Just knowing a tool exists to solve a problem is quite valuable. I talk about some places to do this here: codewithoutrules.com/2016/10/07/gr...
I definitely agree! I learnt the most at work solving "real world" problems.
ps. @itamarst ! Nice to see someone of "Twisted Matrix fame" on here :-) Are you still in the core team?
Not doing much Twisted these days, alas.
That title describes my thoughts exactly. Back in 2016 I had the realization that if I'm going to have a chance at keeping up with all that there is to learn then I'll need to change what I've been doing in college and truly learn to learn. Also learning about productivity and resources management would help a lot. So yeah bit by bit I've become increasingly good at it but mostly is just a matter of practice.
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Frontend framework - Reactjs
Backend - expressjs, Passportjs, Mongodb
Editor - VS code (best when you write JS)