Rails developers should learn React
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Rails developers should learn React
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Re: Rails developers should learn React
#2> Learning to use React will make you more money and a better developer.
Nice zeugma!
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#3I think I must have some sort of strange default wiring in my brain. I've developed code for over 30 years using many different languages, but when I tried to get into Rails about 10 years ago, I just couldn't get my head around it. Nothing seemed to click and go into place for me.
I ended up using Ruby, but via a Sinatra based framework called Padrino. It just seemed to make more sense to me.
The same thing more recently with React. I tried dabbling with it about a year ago, but it just felt like an ill fitting jacket. Couldn't get the hang of it. Now I've been playing a bit with Vue.js and seem so find that fit better for my old brain.
Oh, did I mention that I just turned 50. Perhaps it is a young person vs older person thing, or perhaps my synapses are just too wired in a certain way from decades of habit? I'd be interested to hear feedback from more ahem mature developers out there to see if they experience anything similar.
Re: Rails developers should learn React
#4Honest question, is it really here to stay? What's different between React today and Backbone 4 years ago or Angular 2 years ago?
Does it solve all the problems of the predecessors?
People are already starting to talk about Vue like it's the new messiah.
Re: Rails developers should learn React
#5> Learning to use React will make you more money and a better developer. Nice zeugma!
Thank you for teaching me what this is called. I always found it awkward.
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#6Re: Rails developers should learn React
#7I think I must have some sort of strange default wiring in my brain. I've developed code for over 30 years using many different languages, but when I tried to get into Rails about 10 years ago, I just couldn't get my head around it. Nothing seemed to click and go into place for me. I ended up using Ruby, but via a Sinatra based framework called Padrino. It just seemed to make more sense to me. The same thing more rec…
I'm not sure if I'm "young" in this instance, but I'm 31 and have been coding since I was ~15 and I had the same feeling. "An ill fitting jacket" is a nice way to describe it - I can't put my finger on exactly what feels wrong but a lot of things that "magically" happen bother me.
Re: Rails developers should learn React
#8I think I must have some sort of strange default wiring in my brain. I've developed code for over 30 years using many different languages, but when I tried to get into Rails about 10 years ago, I just couldn't get my head around it. Nothing seemed to click and go into place for me. I ended up using Ruby, but via a Sinatra based framework called Padrino. It just seemed to make more sense to me. The same thing more rec…
Sounds like your sweet spot is more towards the library end of library/'light weight framework' vs the 'full blown framework' spectrum.
I don't believe it has anything to do with age.
Re: Rails developers should learn React
#9Wordpress and jQuery have way more job postings.
But still React does not require extensive training, it has quite simple API and no quirky concepts, and you can start using it right away without "learning".
Re: Rails developers should learn React
#10I'd like to know where he's getting his figures about Rails from. As someone who left a Rails job (no React) fairly recently and has now switched to a React-centric role, while I was job-hunting there didn't seem to be a great demand for developers who knew React and Rails. It's almost like they're suggesting that people from a Django background will be worse off, which I disagree with. Regardless, I do agree that Full-Stack Rails developers should learn React.