Hello Hashnode community. Recently I was hired as a front end developer in a software development shop kinda of company. But they have a lot of legacy code and most if not all devs have no experience in modern web app development or JavaScript outside of jQuery (tools, standards, frameworks, technologies).
I ask my boss if he will let me teach them based in my experience. I know it sound pedantic but I want to help the company and bring them forward.
So, here is my dilemma. Where to start.
Here are my ideas so far:
Currently I work with Vue and react in my personal projects.
Any help is appreciated.
As an overall suggestion, start out by looking at...
In terms of actual subject matter...
If you can find an existing course or set of tutorials that you can walk the team through, go with that. It saves you a lot of time and doesn't diminish the team's learning.
If you are doing it yourself from scratch...
Start with the basics: go through the new patterns in ES6 before moving into frameworks, tooling etc. If the devs are comfortable with jQuery you might be able to start with a session on going from jQuery to vanilla, as a way to help them build on familiar patterns.
When you do go to the frameworks, again try to build up from the basics. Get them doing basic React view code, then add JSX, then start adding build tooling around that; or perhaps that's when your team would prefer to move into the data/state handling stuff.
What you get people to make during this process depends on their mindset. For example you could have them recreate something you've already built, the upside is familiarity; but the downside can be that they try to recreate old methodologies in new tech that doesn't suit it. Or you could have people create classic programming challenges like fizzbuzz and To Do lists; so long as they haven't done that so many times they're bored by it. You need to judge what will work for your team.
One final note - remember you are adding a lot of value by helping the team upskill. Don't get stuck on the idea they're "letting you" do this :)