I learned a lot of new things in 2019. I switched myself into a Full Stack JavaScript developer from a Full Stack PHP developer. I’m going to tell ...
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Thank you for sharing your journey 😊 It was helpful.
With my current skillset, I would likely get a job in Laravel rather than JavaScript-focused. Same as you before, I currently don't know much about JS except for jQuery. That why leaving behind my current tech stack (Laravel-MySQL-Boostrap) and learning everything new, the MERN stack, seemed scary too me cause I only have few months before graduating in college. I'm scared of not being prepared for my future JS dev role. For now, I'm learning ReactJS and am taking baby step in learning the MERN stack. Also, you're right it's a marathon not a sprint 😊
Same happens with me at first half of the year. I got all job related to php and salary is low in our country. Because people only give value of paper experience. I had a good portfolio and work, but they didn't call me because I didn't have experience and on paper work experience. After leaving the MAGENTO Job I got some interview calls, but I didn't go there. Because I really wanted to leave the php, So I started freelancing and the sad part of freelancing is you need to work in WordPress. So I worked WordPress to live and learn about the react js and tried to get some freelance work.
I converting to be a full stack web developer happens because I got client who need work on react and node, I practiced their work and learned a lot for real life.
Also right now, I work with a senior developer personal project, where he helps me to learn a lot of things and project is not that easy so I learned a ton of stuff.
Just keep going with the flow and track your progress. If possible get a break and learn the dream stuff you want to work.
Another tip is search your job in LinkedIn. This will help!
Thank you so much for the tip. I guess job hunting will be hard especially when all my work experience is PHP related and zero ReactJS. So I guess my strategy is creating work-like web apps, deploy it and add it into my portfolio, while learning ReactJS. Anyways, I'll just work and hope for the best 😊
Thank you Ali.
Best of luck Rivera!
I have reached almost 3 years experience in PHP development, being full stack javascript developer or data scientist is my dream at start.
So you are going to change soon ?
I'm still building my skill on them, and when the time is come I'll leave PHP for sure.
Best of luck man! But seriously, if you like php then you can stay with it. But I'm not that much php fan so I leave it.
PHP also has a big future if you can be that skilled, because laravel is doing great and I think in future laravel + vue will be a good skill set!
good article Mr Ali
Thanks!