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

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Björn Grunde
  1. You keep up with passion and dedication. And discipline. Also knowing your limits and focus on small steps. Take one hour every day to program outside your comfort zone. And don't try to learn everything at once.

  2. Any decent human would take you seriously no matter your skill level. If you lack knowledge, the aforementioned human should be glad to help you out :)

  3. Yes. We all need each other. And does it matter where your dev priority is? You are still a dev!

  4. Fullstack is never necessary, but some developers including myself became one with more and more responsibilities and a need for more control around the stack we are working with. But no, there is not a need for becoming full-stack.

  5. Learn a really good backend language instead. Python, Ruby, Elixir, Go are a few examples that comes to mind. If you become confident in your programming skills, you will pick stuff like React real quick. Also, Javascript frameworks are overrated and hyped beyond oblivion.