I started learning web development 6 years ago when i was 13 or something, it started as something to do just for fun and ended up as a passion that pays for college. When i started learning i focused all my attention to HTML and CSS since they were relatively easy, and as time past by i grew accustomed to them and didn't feel the desire to learn anything else, but once i started freelancing i had to learn a couple of things to keep myself in business. But the thing is, with every new project i take i have to learn something new, wordpress development, joomla development, angular, responsive, JSON... There's like a thousand thing to learn, and each time i take 2 days to learn what i need to know and finish the project but then after 2-3 weeks or after a new project i can't remember a thing about that technology! How do you guys do it?
Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
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Re: Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
#2I don't know how js developers deal with explosion of frameworks. The other day I was reading about React and someone was mentioning om, morearty, and omniscient and I had no idea. I was frustrated with reading HN at that point. Lots of learning and forgetting? What a waste. This is where one has to rely on some authority to pick the winners. I dunno. Ignore almost everything and just pick a framework?
Re: Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
#3I don't know how js developers deal with explosion of frameworks. The other day I was reading about React and someone was mentioning om, morearty, and omniscient and I had no idea. I was frustrated with reading HN at that point. Lots of learning and forgetting? What a waste. This is where one has to rely on some authority to pick the winners. I dunno. Ignore almost everything and just pick a framework?
That could work for someone with a day job where they use that framework, but for a freelancer like myself you need to be flexible and keep up with at least most of the technologies..Which is getting to be too much to handle
Re: Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
#4Turn your news feed into push mode instead of pull mode :)
HN is the only site I visit for tech news. The rest of the news I get through newsletters. I follow about 20ish, which I sift through each week to stay updated.
JavaScript Weekly, HTML5 Weekly, Node Weekly etc has me covered and a lot less stressed about staying updated. Basically, just Google [Topic] weekly or newsletter and subscribe to a few. If they don't deliver, just unsubscribe.
Re: Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
#5Turn your news feed into push mode instead of pull mode :) HN is the only site I visit for tech news. The rest of the news I get through newsletters. I follow about 20ish, which I sift through each week to stay updated. JavaScript Weekly, HTML5 Weekly, Node Weekly etc has me covered and a lot less stressed about staying updated. Basically, just Google [Topic] weekly or newsletter and subscribe to a few. If they don't…
You misunderstood my question ,what i meant is how do you learn most of the new technologies and not forget them after a while
Re: Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
#6What I do is I try to be in the Early Majority group instead of being an Early Adopter [0]. There are "a thousand things to learn" but how many of them will be still popular in 2 years? You can start learning them after 1 or 2 more years and still be in the early majority group, saving yourself some time learning a technology that is overhyped and dies in 6 months.
[0] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/DiffusionOfInn...
Re: Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
#7Have you considered specializing? Pick a set of a few tools you enjoy working with and only work with them. Sure you need to keep your eyes on the horizon for better tools, as you wouldn't want to be a "CGI specialist" these days.
What I'm getting at is that MOST of the time, even if a particular job lists off some particular tech, the ultimate customer is generally interested in a good working solution and doesn't care that much about the tech used.
Re: Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
#8It is okay to forget framework-specific syntax/methods. The most important thing is that you get to understand its underlying concepts.
Re-learning a framework/tool is usually pretty easy.
Re: Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
#9It is okay to forget framework-specific syntax/methods. The most important thing is that you get to understand its underlying concepts. Re-learning a framework/tool is usually pretty easy.
Interesting point, it is indeed easier to relearn something
Re: Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
#10Have you considered specializing? Pick a set of a few tools you enjoy working with and only work with them. Sure you need to keep your eyes on the horizon for better tools, as you wouldn't want to be a "CGI specialist" these days. What I'm getting at is that MOST of the time, even if a particular job lists off some particular tech, the ultimate customer is generally interested in a good working solution and doesn't c…
I did specialize for sometime, i learned how to recreate some of the javascript animations and web elements in pure CSS or SASS, but no one is interested in CSS solutions, they just want simple jQuery scripts, cause it's the new big thing, so i decided to adapt myself with new trends, since freelancing provide most of my income and college tuition