New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Where to start with getting back into front end?
Ask HN: Where to start with getting back into front end?
2 by throwaway_egbs | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Gentle creatures of the forest, I'm a 40-something software engineer who, for the past ten years, has primarily been doing distributed systems backend work. Before that I was full-stack. I'm wondering what your recommendations are for getting back up to speed on the frontend world. I've dabbled in React, D3, and some of the modern browser APIs (fetch, promises, better DOM selectors). I'm vaguely aware of a thing called Babel. And apparently Node is used for more than just running a server. My confusion about where to focus my relearning efforts comes from an impression, rightly or wrongly, that frontend dev went kind of nuts and turned itself into a big mess. This is just my impression from the outside, not an informed professional judgment. It has seemed like we've been churning through frameworks, tools, and paradigms on a semiannual basis. Is this still happening, or have things started to stabilize? What I'm looking for is a standard core that I can focus on, and some best practices, without getting into the weeds on anything superfluous.
2 by throwaway_egbs | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Gentle creatures of the forest, I'm a 40-something software engineer who, for the past ten years, has primarily been doing distributed systems backend work. Before that I was full-stack. I'm wondering what your recommendations are for getting back up to speed on the frontend world. I've dabbled in React, D3, and some of the modern browser APIs (fetch, promises, better DOM selectors). I'm vaguely aware of a thing called Babel. And apparently Node is used for more than just running a server. My confusion about where to focus my relearning efforts comes from an impression, rightly or wrongly, that frontend dev went kind of nuts and turned itself into a big mess. This is just my impression from the outside, not an informed professional judgment. It has seemed like we've been churning through frameworks, tools, and paradigms on a semiannual basis. Is this still happening, or have things started to stabilize? What I'm looking for is a standard core that I can focus on, and some best practices, without getting into the weeds on anything superfluous.
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