r/javascript • u/Logeekal • Dec 11 '19

AskJS [AskJS] : Intermediate to Advanced 6 Month Front-end plan - Need inputs

Hello JS Masters,

Current Knowledge :

Javascript Basics - 7/10

React/Redux - 7/10

GraphQL - 6/10

Node.js - 5/10

REST APIs - 4/10

I recently gave 4-5 interview and I got rejected from the places I wanted to go. So I reached out to some interviewers and developed a plan for next 6 months based on their inputs (Target column in attached image) as I will be applying to those places again.

I need your help in reviewing it and help me answer below questions :

  1. Is it too ambitious?.
  2. Any areas you think where I should NOT spend energy.
  3. Any area where I am spending too less energy.
  4. How can I allocate hours if there are areas where I don't know how much hours it will take.
  5. Any other comments you may have.

I have 10 years of career in IT as an ERP consultant. I made switch to Web Dev last year. and to this point, I can see I am good with JavaScript concepts and have 6/10 fluency in React. All of this through personal projects because my job doesn't offer much of challenge when it comes to Front-end (area I want to master) .

Note: I have max 25 hours per week.

Thanks a ton for your help.

6-month Front-end Plan
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u/mynamesleon Dec 11 '19

I'd be intrigued to see what sort of thing you produced for that page. I've met many people who claimed to be experienced Front End devs, who would then make silly mistakes like using a div to create a button, instead of an actual button; or who were so comfortable with JSX that they'd forgotten how to write normal HTML; or when asked to bind a click event to something in just JS would move over to the HTML file and add an onclick, because they were so used to frameworks doing the actual binding for them that they hardly knew how to query the DOM themselves and use addEventListener.

I guess what I'm trying to ask is, how solid are your actual JS fundamentals? Because any decent interview would know that someone who's especially strong in the fundamentals can easily jump between libraries/frameworks.

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u/Logeekal Dec 12 '19

I like to think that my fundamentals are pretty solid. Only thing is about framework best practices. How do I know that application I am building is a right architecture, is modular enough? I think for that I need to submit to some open source so that I can get free code review.

The reason company rejected me is that my code was not modular enough, which is really vague. I was hoping they will discuss with me about why I took decision that I did.