I have a confession...
While starting out as a software developer, I jumped from React to Solid and back and forth. Then, eventually, I'd abandon the project I was working on.
I fell victim to learning many stacks at once.
There was no clarity.
I didn't have a clear roadmap.
I learnt that I should focus on building something I truly resonated with, something that really solved a problem I had.
So I stuck with that for some time.
After a while:
I realized that my consistency to work on one project had 10xed.
I was learning better and understanding concepts quickly.
I had better project management skills.
This approach led me to finishing a note taking PWA successfully (link 🖇️ in the comments). Which I am so glad about.
What to learn from this?
You can build software with any language, any framework you want to use. Just pick one and stick with it.
Good luck on your software developer journey 🛣️.
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This is very true when learning. Just learn to use one thing completely and then the transition to other things is much more obvious and the reasons why you might make such a transition will become more clear and make sense.
There are a lot of technically amazing frameworks with a lot of fans and a lot of articles expounding their virtues - frequently however there are just a few supporting libraries and UI kits etc., meaning you have to do way more yourself. Choosing one of the big three: React, Angular or Vue will provide a much richer environment in which to learn and build.
I have a contradicting opinion - don't stop yourself from learning new frameworks. Only caveat is - don't expect yourself to build a great thing with them. Learn for the sake of exploring possibilities and having experience to empathize with other developers and also to bring back patterns from there to what you write. Don't stop learning and don't just stick with what you know for long. However, I do agree don't try to build your dream project with something new you were learning - this is the type of situation where utilizing your strengths is better than strengthening yourself in something new.
I checked out your app. Just a few things. 1 the menu doesn't always work. Sometimes you have to close and open it several times to get it to work.
The trash lacks the menu or a close. And the empty trash doesn't work.
It seems you can filter by "Upcoming" but no way to enter a date when imputing a note. It seems to suggest more of a calendar of events or an agenda but only has the date and time of when the note was added.
I love the app! It was great!!!
Hello, Mathew 👋.
I have worked on the fix for the trash, and the menu button for the app.
If you have time, would you help me test it out, I would appreciate it.
Here is my Twitter: https://twitter.com/mich_thedev?t=LI9O54e23e2PRIfYbnlQog&s=09
DMs are always open. Thank you
Yeah it's the app displays the date when a note was first created and the time of the latest update.
Thank you 😊.
I have been working on those exact bugs. I will be sure to deploy the latest version with all the fixes tonight. Thank you for helping me to user test the app 🤗
By the way, are you free. I am looking for contributors for the project. If you are, you can send me a DM on Twitter. Here is my handle https://twitter.com/mich_thedev?t=932CMc0eVs5kuydNLBrjrw&s=09
About the menu. It's a bug related to the css. And i will do my best to fix it.
Here is the PWA link : notesrus.vercel.app
And the repo link : github.com/michTheBrandofficial/no...
What you said is absolutely true ..! I was shifting frameworks Angular to flutter vice versa while learning.. then did the same thing sticked to one thing (Angular).
BTW I have just visited your PWA it's awesome especially the dark mode.. but when you open the "side menu" it is working for the first time then thats it is not correctly working anymore... Just letting you know so that you can fix it.
Ah that is so great 😃. And thank your for checking out the app. About the bug 🐛, I have checked it out and I will start working on fixing it. Thanks again
The design is awesome
Thank you!! 😊
I agree and disagree at the same time 😂
IMHO it depends on your experience, your position in the learning curve and your expectations.
If you participate in the decision making you need to know or at least understand as much as possible in regards of frameworks, libraries, generators and so on and so forth, otherwise "when all you have is a hummer... everything looks like a nail".
On the other side, if you're doing your first steps in the dev world or you just want to specialise in a given stack as a developer, maybe getting your first job or pursuing an expertise on that given stack you don't need to have such a big picture.
There are developers that are coding even when they sleep, others dedicate a great amount of -spare- time to develop and others just want to code at work and forget about it on their free time.
All three scenarios are perfectly valid and even if you're a hardcore dev, you may jump from one to the other (e.g. you develop 2 to 4h a day in your spare time, maybe 4 to 8h on weekends but then you get a kid and you stop doing it).
TL;DR: do as you feel like whenever you feel like 😁
Time is not well spent when you learn several frameworks that actually do the same thing e.g someone trying to learn Angular and React, when they all can just do the same thing.
Also letting the brain focus on one framework at a learning period, is a genuine way to progress faster as a software engineer
I agree with what you said, but I also think that different devs have different ways of learning and absorbing what they are learning and that this also depends on the moment in our life and what we are learning. There were times when I could easily learn more than one language at the same time and other times it was a mess. I believe we should always try to identify where we are at. Don't you agree?
That is so true. I agree 💯
Agreed. It is most important to learn the fundamentals first then if you want to switch whether it is a front end framework or back end language it will be almost seamless. But I'm with you, find what works for you and stick to it.
I'm so with you. I have a list of funny projects which I want to build and have noted a different framework behind every idea (just beacause I want to learn them). But I recognize that it drains too much energy to always start from the beginning and go through the learning curve of every new framework.
The solution for me is, stick to one (react / nextJS is new for me so that will be my choice, I'm an Angular professional), and go with it and build two or three cool apps and projects. And THEN... I can think about looking to other frameworks (I talked to you, svelte) :-)
I agree you should focus in what you're learning until you understand it enough.
But, I think a developer should continue studing libraries and framework.
Not for the sake to use, but to better understand the trade-off that they offer, and to discover better way to accomplish his work.