The latest articles on DEV Community by guaip (@guaip). https://dev.to/guaip https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F2893541%2F6b5c42e4-30af-43e7-b3a4-cbbae0fe4146.png https://dev.to/guaip en guaip Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:26:34 +0000 https://dev.to/guaip/website-jobs-are-dead-what-to-do-now-2813 https://dev.to/guaip/website-jobs-are-dead-what-to-do-now-2813 <p>I've been doing front-end as a freelancer for 15 years. I have some PHP background and still do some backend stuff to this day, but I specialized in converting design to code back when it was cool in the late 2000s and 2010s. And I've been doing this since then.</p> <p>I'm pretty good at it, agencies usually come to me when they have a "high-stakes", design-oriented project that their team can't handle the challenge of making it pixel perfect and "flawlessly responsive".</p> <p>But these jobs are pretty much dead. The 20-page cutups became landing pages, but since I was making good money I failed to learn new stuff (React, Angular), mostly because I was more of a "visual frontend" guy. Now jobs are scarce and frontend listing are 70% React, 20% Angular and the rest is Vue and other things. I don't even know how to look for a job as "visual" frontend developer as everything requires one of these frameworks now. I even looked at some PHP jobs, but they all also require some framework, mostly Laravel.</p> <p>Any suggestions on how to proceed now? I've been studying some Vue.js since it seems a lot easier and could be a good starting point, but I really feel I've fallen behind at this point.</p> frontend