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Why I'm Moving From .NET to JavaScript

I’ve spent years building enterprise systems in the .NET ecosystem.
It shaped how I think about architecture, reliability and engineering.
I still appreciate everything it taught me.

But over time, I started to notice something.
When you want to build and ship products on your own, speed and reach matter a lot more than heavy infrastructure.

That’s where the modern JavaScript ecosystem stands out.

React, Next.js and Node let you build full products end to end.
One person. One laptop. No waiting for long deployment pipelines or giant environments.
You can ship something real in hours instead of weeks.

This shift is not about abandoning .NET.
It’s about expanding my toolkit and creating things that can reach anyone, anywhere.

So I’m starting a new chapter.
I’m learning the modern JS stack, building products in public and sharing the whole journey as I go.

If you’re also making the same transition
You’re not alone
Let’s build better things together

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Alican — Full-Stack Engineer

Thanks for reading! If you have any questions about the transition from .NET, drop them below 👇

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Brooks Rockett

We use .NET heavily for work and I'm curious, how do you manage without tools like Entity Framework? I guess when you're setting up databases from scratch you can do whatever you want, whereas most of our stuff is wrapped around existing SQL Server DBs.

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Alican — Full-Stack Engineer

Would love to hear if anyone else made a similar tech-stack switch. What surprised you the most?