For example, you are focusing on mastering MERN stack, but you still have to maintain codebases written in PHP and jQuery (no offense).
How often do you find yourself in situations like these?
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The stallion coder does not deal with legacy code. I rewrite it every other year in my favorite stack.
PHP: it is still one of my favorites.
jQuery: rewrite in RE:DOM or Preact upon sight.
Sad truth: the most popular page on my website is written in jQuery 1.x version.
The page looks completely different from everything else on my website.
The app, made in 2010, is so complicated that I don't have the stomach to rewrite it yet.
I'm largely doing web development these days, but I'm often called to help with some specific work in a WPF application (I used that for many years, but it's been a solid 7 years since I actively developed in WPF). For the past few months it's been almost weekly, from a few minutes to several days. It's been 10 days now, which is surprising. Hopefully I didn't jinx it by mentioning it. :D
Hahah, I feel you 😀😀 What's your current stack, just curious 👀😀
It's ASP.Net Core 3.1, mix of Razor pages, JavaScript, jQuery, Tailwind CSS (though I leave most of that to the UX team. who are better at making things look good). C# for the backend part with SQL Server for the database (but I don't though the database stuff at all; a library is used to talk to the database).
For my own web site, it's LAMP, but that thing needs a major rewrite. I started working on it, but I'm often too tired at night to get any of that done.
I've earned the luxury of never having to do that. With 15 years of php behind me I'm still ok doing new projects in modern frameworks like Symfony 5 or Spiral but I have the power to stay away from older projects or work with older stacks.
I will always jump head first even into older Go projects, I've yet to encounter a legacy projects that feels legacy in the same way that looking at WordPress code base does.
I more or less work as a problem solver. I am trying not have a favourite stack, but be more or less familiar with everything our large team does so that I can help there if needed. So I am switching technologies, stacks, platforms, etc.. on daily basis.
There are times I am not very familiar with the technology needed (mostly mobile development) so I am trying to avoid that :D
constantly, when I create a user interface on vanillaJS, sometimes I have to cram jQuery :cry
the main thing is to try the idea, quickly
curious, what's your current stack? 👀
Current stack: nodejs/php
I create various constructors, advertisements and other tools.
Client side: nodejs (gulp -> babel(es6), browserify, tinyify, exorcist)
Backend: NodeJS/PHP, Database: clickhouse, PG/Mysql, mongo
Everyday at work, php is not bad but it's not my thing either
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, 48 weeks of the year
I'm a Pythonista at home, but at work I maintain C#/ASP.NET codebases.