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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

React is in demand but should you learn it as a junior?
I wouldn't wish it on my worst of enemies.

React is not a framework and because of that, every startup who adopts Reacts builds their own Frankenstein of framework around React.

There are high paying jobs to React here in Toronto for 120K.
However, most companies in Toronto don't want to hire juniors only senior devs.

If they do hire juniors, expect to be looking for a job in 3-6 months because they are throwing devs onto the problem and once it's solved they are going to scale back their team.

There's more to this story but it's all I have time to write.

What the market is asking for is not always what's best for you to be doing.