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Salvador Cervantes
Salvador Cervantes
10,898 Points
Posted by Salvador Cervantes
Salvador Cervantes
10,898 Points

Advice for the future

Little advice. so I'm stuck between two choices. I'm a self taught Programmer who is hopes to start submitting job apps at the start of the new year. Ive been teaching myself programming since around May (i did take some programming class in high school and college) and i understand HTML and CSS very well and have a good understanding of JS along with frameworks like Jquery and bootstrap. Now if my goal is to start sending apps at the start of the new year. should i focus on learning more vanilla Js. Start learning React ( which i have a little and it makes perfect since) or learn "full stack"(like mongo and express)? just some input would be nice!

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Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

It depends on what kind of developer you wanna be. Do you wanna be just a front-end developer? Make sure you're solid with normal JavaScript, and learn a rendering framework or two like React or Angular. Just make sure you're familiar and experienced with a normal front-end workflow. Would you rather be a full stack developer? Try out Node and Express and MongoDB and get to where you can build some cool backend code. Just be sure you're confident in doing the job you wanna apply for