I’ve been a developer for 4 years now, primarily using WordPress to build custom themes at an Agency. I have experience with PHP/JS/jQuery/HTML/SCSS, but that’s it..
I want to move into different front-end jobs that use React or Vue and transition into a full stack development using MERN stack eventually.
I see some jobs that interest me but they all require about 3 years of React experience. How am I supposed to make myself job ready for positions like this? There’s only so much free time I can use to teach myself React & some back-end skills, and there’s like an endless list of things I would need to know in order to fit comfortably into a position where I’d be expected to know React and different dev environments.
It feels like taking this WordPress position has just put me at a massive disadvantage going forward.
Is there anyone that has been in a similar position as myself and made the jump away from WordPress into other stacks? How did you do it?
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I am similarly stuck (but with like 15 years of WP, lol). My latest idea is to start using React as much as I can instead of PHP and focusing on React components inside WordPress, that way it’s related to regular work and features for employment, but moving towards React. Another idea is to use NextJS and WordPress API to build as much stuff in JS as possible, but without screwing any of my clients over, since they can still do their updates in WP as usual. Honestly, not sure I am fully ready to go 100% Mongo, although DynamoDB is pretty compelling.