It is pretty wild, but the fundamentals are still just computer programming and hopefully your employer will be able to help reign in the insanity with good technical direction.
There are a lot of great JavaScript articles on this site. I recommend querying and reading a bunch. Here are a few you might find helpful:
Hi Ben and thanks for sharing my article It makes me really happy !
I will read all of them since I kinda like how the JS community is so active ! When I see all these articles and tutorials I'm a little more relieved about it
One more thing, you only need ONE job and there are PLENTY of jobs in Java, C, C++, COBOL, PHP.
You are in control of your own career and JavaScript is only eating a bit of the software industry. There is plenty of room for all the languages, personalities, etc.
Becoming a one-trick pony is not very good career advice for people working in IT. There are plenty of one-trick ponies that get replaced by people capable of working in more than one language, and get stuck in dead-end jobs working on maintaining 30 year old software because they thought there are enough jobs for COBOL.
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It is pretty wild, but the fundamentals are still just computer programming and hopefully your employer will be able to help reign in the insanity with good technical direction.
There are a lot of great JavaScript articles on this site. I recommend querying and reading a bunch. Here are a few you might find helpful:
Writing modern JavaScript code
Setting up a Minimal, Yet Useful JavaScript Dev Environment
The JS Path: JavaScript Best Practices
Also @kayis posts a lot of great info on JS.
Good luck!
Hi Ben and thanks for sharing my article It makes me really happy !
I will read all of them since I kinda like how the JS community is so active ! When I see all these articles and tutorials I'm a little more relieved about it
One more thing, you only need ONE job and there are PLENTY of jobs in Java, C, C++, COBOL, PHP.
You are in control of your own career and JavaScript is only eating a bit of the software industry. There is plenty of room for all the languages, personalities, etc.
Becoming a one-trick pony is not very good career advice for people working in IT. There are plenty of one-trick ponies that get replaced by people capable of working in more than one language, and get stuck in dead-end jobs working on maintaining 30 year old software because they thought there are enough jobs for COBOL.