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0 pointsamonith3mo ago0 comments

That invisible hand exists and had always existed, it's the market. Nobody will arrest you, but the enjoyable work simply slowly disappears. Unless we're talking hobby scenarios, but nobody cares about that.

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mexicocitinluez3mo ago

> That invisible hand exists and had always existed, it's the market.

I have never heard a client say "Man, glad you used React". Literally nobody cares what framework you use to build your site. Nobody.

If you didn't know any better you'd think all software developers are chained in a basement where they have absolutely no power to do anything but build React sites.

amonithOP3mo ago

You sound like a freelancer or something. Every single company I interviewed for in the last couple of years as a full stack dev *required* experience in React/Vue/Angular 2+. With old school js/html/css you wouldn't even pass CV screening. Best you could get with that is some wordpress gig for peanuts.

DANmode3mo ago

This comment is pretty off-base.

1.) Those WordPress gigs can make your React gig look like indentured servitude

2.) The company you’re applying to isn’t the client.

3.) “freelancer or something”, like you’re spitting it out? Yes - some of us aren’t handcuffed to mediocrity by 200-1000 person orgs. As the kids say, “Don’t hate.”

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