Live data from Hacker News

Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018

github.com

151–153 of 153 posts

Re: Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018

#152
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very true, in the end everyone has limited time and it's impossible to learn everything. However, I do personally like roadmaps/guides like this since, as a beginner, it's hard to figure out what you dont know. So being able to see a list of what's considered some of the most important/relevant topics is useful in that regard. Still I totally agree that getting paralyzed is a big problem, it's way better to program s…

> Still I totally agree that getting paralyzed is a big problem, it's way better to program something "the wrong/inefficient/bad way" rather than to program nothing. I'd argue that this depends on the situation. If you're writing code that needs to meet a deadline but also needs to be supported months/years from now, there are considerations and the possibility that you'd have been better off not writing the code bef…

Definitely agree with that, it's a tough balance between code quality and efficiency. But at least as a beginner that is trying to learn new things, you usually don't have to worry much about things being supported later on compared to just getting something out there/working and improving as you go along.

Re: Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018

#153
post #63

I understand this is opinionated and "personal", but on the off chance that this might make React less intimidating, let me chime in and say that you can do professional work (and build pretty much any reasonable application) without: - really understanding "semantic HTML" (if you know what div's and span's are, you're ready to get to work), - understanding flexbox (you can, and many pro developers do, just use a CSS…

how does ES6 remove dependency of Moment? just curious.
Post reply on HN