Should I quit my career?

I need some suggestion regarding my career as a front end developer?
SHOULD I QUIT MY CAREER AS A FRONTEND DEVELOPER?

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In frontend development i know HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, sass, WordPress, and i know little bit of javascript and currently learning react js.
I think i can't able to do logical thinking as other's doing in react as reactjs developer or js devloper like my other friends do.
So thinking to quit my current job.
Any suggestions ????

Comments

[Aviv Ben Yosef]

Hey there!
Don't be harsh on yourself!
Meaningful learning takes time and looking outside, you might feel overwhelmed by how much people know that you don't, but that is not healthy isn't it?

I would suggest diving into actually learning with a fresh new mindset -- growth.

Learn because you want to grow into being a better developer, grow because you're curious.
There's always someone better, trust me I've been doing code for the last decade.

I would also like to mention FreeCodeCamp.org as it's the best place in my opinion to learn new programming skills and sharpen existing ones.

Good luck!

[Gaurav Soni]

Thanks a lot aviv for your suggestions.

[Tawhid]

Let me tell you a real story
When I started learning even a print statement in python looked like God language to me.
Logical thinking? A For loop was the best I could do but I kept trying,learning,experimenting.Sometimes 1-2 hours of practice sometimes less sometimes no practice at all.Did I ever feel I want to quit? Nope never I love what I do
Do I regret my choice? Nope I don't
What good did it do?
well,I teach people C++,game development and Ethical hacking etc for free btw
I myself am a indie game dev making thousands on freelance
and as for hobby I make custom bios for custom hardware,host servers for games for my own on my hardware.
Like living dream life.

At first when you start It will feel like hell but Practice makes a man perfect.
Never give up, follow your dreams.
Do what you love.

[Adam Crockett 🌀]

Good on you btw, kudos!

[Aissa Laribi]

Quitting your job? Maybe, yes. Quitting your career of front-end developer? Maybe not. Perhaps, you just need to work in more projects, this way it will improve your logical thinking skills. I gave up front-end development because I knew only WordPress, CSS, a bit of HTML, PHP but nothing about JavaScript . Whereas you, you know about JavaScript, perhaps if you push to get better with JavaScript you might have a lot opportunities. Apparently, JavaScript in the most demanded programming language. Feel free to check out the following link bootcamp.berkeley.edu/blog/most-in...
I hope it helped

[Gaurav Soni]

Thanks for your suggestions aissa

[poopa-uk]

No dude. Stick at it. We all have these feelings of being overwhelmed. If react is overwhelming you might want to try a framework with an easier learning curve. I started with Vue, and I'm glad I did because react would probably have scared me away at first.

More importantly, we're here to help you, and advise you. One day you'll be looking at a post from another overwhelmed dev and it will be for turn to help them. Stick at it, you will get there. It will be tough at times but it will be so worth it.

[Andrew Baisden]

When I first started as a developer I was good with HTML and CSS but very weak in JavaScript. For a long time I was not progressing much and I started to have a lot of imposter syndrome and self doubt. Some people just thought I was not good enough.

The turning point happened when I found much better learning resources and better teachers. I guess at the time I was following some very average programming courses. All I did was put in the time and practice, practice, practice!

And the rest is history I have a job in tech, i'm active in the developer community. And I have a pretty strong profile with lots of programming skills. I believe that almost anyone can learn this stuff you just need to practice non stop and continue to repeat the cycle until it is as natural as walking or driving a car. It just becomes muscle memory.

[ΛGΣΣK]

You need to spend serious time to chill and figure out what you really want to do with your career. In my experience, you'll realize that what you've been doing so far is the only good thing you can do and you should stick with it, migrate to new things progressively. Of course if you have finacial security then you can do whatever you want!

[Gaurav Soni]

Yeah i understand, thank you so much for your suggestion

[Nikhil]

Learn programming. Not coding. Coding means the syntax and programming is the logic. Learning programming comes only with experience. You need to solve problems yourself.

Couple of points which I hope will help you...

• You need to build stuff. You can do exercises from freecodecamp.org and exercism.io to kick things off if you are too new with JavaScript. But you have to build things eventually. Only then will you understand how to go about programming.
• Don't hop from one tutorial to another. Find one curriculum and stick with it. I recommend theodinproject.com. I wasted 2 years while on a job by doing exercises and hopping from one material to another. TheOdinProject doesn't make all of their materials. They have a great curriculum which is created by picking the best materials from around the internet.
• You need a community to ask your questions. TheOdinProject have a discord server. Do the curriculum and they will help you when necessary.
• I am assuming since you say you are good with HTML and CSS, you might be a visual learner. This means it might help more if you make things that you can visually see them. Have you tried making a website? Programming clicked for me when I created my own website. I made it with Hugo static site generator. It didn't even have JavaScript. Just HTML, CSS and Hugo's syntax Language which let me do basic logic. I read code and understood what it did. It took a lot of time. So maybe try to make a website with basic JavaScript.
• Seek and you shall find. Search online with your problem in Google or DuckDuckGo. Whatever issues you are coming across as a beginner, somebody else would've experienced it as well.
• I struggled with some things you mentioned as well. Maybe my blog post can help - dev.to/unsungnovelty/initlogs-3-le...
• Finally...

Never give up! You got this!

[Jack Wu]

Hi there,
If you don't imporve your skills then you really should find something else to do.
You can find something else if you fully prepared and It is better to schedule it in your own term than let the industry does it for you.

This is my honest opinion.
All the best.

[NunoA21]

Well, some time ago I went through something similar. There are times in our careers that we think that we can't make it, or that we don't have what it takes to have a seccessful career.
But don't listen to those thoughts, with time, patiente and plenty of hard work, if you want to succeed, things will come!
Try to clear your mind first and don't be too harsh on yourself, I know you'll be able to make it!
Everyone strugles with the "imposter syndrome" from time to time, even seniors!
Just take your time, if you're encountering yourself in a place where you don't feel confortable, that's where you'll progress!
Keep it up, if you like this field (programming), you'll make it :)
Good luck! 🍀

[Gopi Gorantala]

This is a common mis-conception most of the developers have. No one has become expert in a single day. It takes time for mastering a skill. All it requires is a little bit of your time and dedication.

The people who you are comparing yourself with aren't some giant warriors with gifted knowledge. They spent time and understood things, learned from their mistakes and advises from others.

I am no master myself and trying to get better of me everyday.

Try this,

1. Don't start learing React, right now. Before starting with react you need to know some basics of JS, destructuring, ES6 syntaxes, promises etc.
2. Learn JS basics, do problem solving for couple months to get strong with JS and logical thinking. This helps you ace coding interviews as well. I would recommend structy.net by Alvin.
3. Once you get a good hold of JS, now start with React.

Here is my advise!!

Developers, you can buy React course by Stephen Grider and Andrei Neagoie on Udemy. BUT.. why can't you learn by doing?? Start writing something it won't come up... read documentation reactjs.org its the best site that gives insights on each and every line of code you write.

I am a Full Stack developer will over 10 years and been working on React for over 4 years now. I would say you don't mimic already existing applications.

Here are some of my ideas which if it helps, try it and if it not, please don't hesitate to ask questions.

For starters, learn the basics that's enough, don't go deep...

• First bootstrap a react application with CRA or any boilerplate code.

• I would recommend using functional components with hooks and materialUI, react-hook-form for form data, react-query for queries, etc..

• Now think of an idea or app you wanna build. I recommend you build an app that represents your resume (more or so a portfolio website). You can showcase this to recruiters once it's production-ready. ;)

• Don't build re-usable components right away..

• Start simple, go check StackOverflow and get some ideas in building navbar, sidebar, or check for ideas to do them.

• Now, write some code and bring up the app.

• Hardcode data, for now, there is no rush in getting data from API, and don't mess the code right aways with APIs, databases, etc.

• Once your app is ready with hardcoded data.

• I would recommend FIREBASE as your database, everything JSON and you'll love it.

• Connect the Firebase with your app. Get some data and refactor the hardcoded data with API data.

• Now where you feel you duplicated code, make them a reusable component. Like Modal, Button, TextField, Notification, Select, Image, FileUpload, ToolTip, Router Link, etc.

• Now once this is up and working... install redux and inflate the state. Connect the store and get it ready.

• By this time you're hands are dirty and you know what's happening within the app.

• So now you are an intermediate React developer --------------

Do you want to become an expert?

• Have an API wrapper that takes the request and serves you API data. This will be a pattern all your XHR requests follow.

• Each Component should serve a single purpose, if you think the feature you're adding should be separated, don't hesitate... Just separate, and later you can more shine on this code.

• Check for code quality, your code should not flood the state.

• Now, check how many times each of your components is rendered. use useCallback or useMemo to reduce the number of re-renders, this will lower the burden on DOM.

Note: You can use NextJS to do the same and it will really be cool. GoodLuck.

Don't buy all the paid courses. There are plenty of online free resources available and they would definitely help you. Spend a week determined and if you still feel there are bits and pieces missing. You can always buy a paid course.

[Gaurav Soni]

Thanks you so much for detailed explanation