Mario Giambanco

Director of User Experience Development

Mar 3, 2016

You sound really motivated and I don't want to put you down or take that away from you. But - I think you have a long way to go before you can say you've "mastered" one or the other, let alone have a good foundation of Javascript. Even if you spent 14 hours a day for 2 months working in javascript, your still short years of experience that most employers look for.

What have you accomplished in these 2 months? Did you put code into production? Did people use that code? Did you fix bugs they found? Did you test the code?

Get good at 1 thing. I mean really good. Good enough that someone could walk up to you - ask you how to create a function in JS or how to delete a DOM element or how to do a for loop or how to loop through a list of objects in an array. Without using a framework.

Then - pick a framework and stick with that. You can find jobs for AngularJS 1.x just as easily as you can find jobs for React. AJS 1.x isn't going anywhere. It has a huge user base; has been around for years; bugs worked out, etc... AJS 2.x is only going to change ALL of that, introduce new bugs and start with a fresh user base.

If you intend to be a career programmer, you will never stop learning. There isn't 1 framework to learn thats the best. Today, AJS 1.x and React are popular - tomorrow - they won't be and something else will be new and exciting.

Every programmer I've meet that learned programming because they needed a job or were looking to make quick money or ... has failed. This can be an incredibly difficult and infuriating job - as well as incredibly rewarding. To say you "learned" javascript in 2 months is almost insulting. I learned AngularJS 1.x in 2 months also. I've worked with it for 2 years now and still don't know everything about it. I spent 7 hours 1 day last week trying to do something in AJS 1.x - finally figured it out, and then removed the code (saved it, of course) because when I took a step back and looked at it, I went down a path that could be achieved much easier a different way.

All of that said -

Keep going. Get on a server and write apps. Doesn't matter what they are; write some code, put it in production; show people it - get feedback - fix stuff - rinse and repeat. Post the projects here and let people critique them. Doesn't matter what it is; reproduce Twitter; reproduce Hashnode; reproduce Amazon. What ever interests you.

Then, after you have some projects to show; put them on your resume and go shopping for a job.

Jigyasu Arya

Mar 3, 2016

Yeah sir it's like an Elephant and I can't eat it in one bite initially i think that i can learn angular in one or in two months but as i learned I came to know what to learn next and after that what to learn next. I can't learn it all completely so started to working on a project and now learning only those things which are required for my project. So sir I decided to learn only one framework that's why I ask this question which will you suggest me to learn as newbie angular or react which to learn ?

I'm a big fan of AngularJS 1.x. It's almost a complete package. It's been around for years; has had bugs worked out; has a big community and tons of code to learn from. I'd almost go so far to say it's the Wordpress of JS frameworks. The community is that big IMO. As discussed dozens of times here, Comparing AJS to React is like comparing apples to oranges. React is just a view. Period. My biggest pain points with React is the mixture of html into javascript. Back in the day, we called that separation of duty. 1 file for each type of code. Now a days, it appears, that's been thrown out with React. It makes the code much harder to read IMO. AJS 2 is a completely different animal. Many, myself included, have voiced we wish they would call it something else - their not one in the same. And - AJ2 is still in beta. So sure - play with it if you want; get a leg up and learn it - but until it reaches 2.0 it's not to be used in any kind of production. Any employer using AJS 2 in production is just asking for problems and IF you took a job using AJS 2 without a strong JS background, you may be looking for another job shortly there after; because when something goes wrong in AJ2 and you can't fix it because you lack the JS background... So - learn AJS 1.x or Learn Wordpress / PHP or learn Ruby - there are thousands of jobs that need those skills. But pick one and learn it well. Learn React only if your willing to learn the other parts that are required to use it.

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