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Discussion on: If I don't use React, am I still a developer?

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Thomas Junkツ

As long as you get paid for it, you are a "professional" software developer. The rest is not relevant.

People often forget: The main raison d'être for professional software developers is to solve customer problems. As long as you accomplish that, I see no reason to worry.

I remember back in the day in 2011, I had to develop a frontend for a warehouse management software. It was mainly done in jQuery, Bootstrap and the one or other jQuery-plugin. I came to a problem within the software, where the UI had several dynamic updates - and worse: some were interdependent (X has to be there in order to determine which Y has to be loaded). That demanded a completely different (event driven) approach. So I was looking for a relief to my pain. That was backbone at the time.

That said: As long as you do not feel the urge to use different technology - why switch?

Our industry has become something like the fashion industry where people are publicly shamed if they fall out of trend. I see myself more like a good plumber who delivers a reasonable result within the constraints of time, money and tools.