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First off. Great tutorial! I wish more frameworks their native documentation would come with more real world examples. Redux's fantastic documentation is a step in the right direction but still makes real world solutions a bit too much of a side note. Regarding Javascript fatigue, I want to share something that greatly helped me. I have written enterprise applications for Fortune 500s using PHP, Rails, Backbone, Angular, React, Node, Express, Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Yeoman, Bower, Redux, jQuery, Coffescript, Prototype.js ( remember them!? ), LESS, SASS... Basically whatever was hot at the moment. Long I've enjoyed learning new things, but after having made a solid investment in Angular only to find out none of it's SEO solutions were really commercially viable the fatigue hit me hard and I gave up on trying to learn new things for a while. I simply stopped caring. Then I got approached by SpaceX for a JS full stack position. All they told me about the interview beforehand was that it would be very JS heavy, yet no details on what stack or framework they were working with. To prep I brushed up hard on my basic JS skills. Codeschool.com their JS road trip was very useful. So were "Eloquent JavaScript" and "JavaScript: The Good Parts". After making that tough but very rewarding investment, learning React, Flux, Redux, Elm etc. all became a breeze. I no longer have any attachment to any framework. They're all just different ways of using JS to me. And no matter what the future brings, no matter how many frameworks and build tools get thrown our way, I don't think ( hope? ) my heavy investment in Javascript will soon disappoint. So for those of you out there trying to figure out what to invest in next, React, Elm, RxJS.. My advice would be to get a deep understating of pure Javascript first. Ideally, try to build your very own framework using vanilla JS. Once you do that you'll find each new framework is just a different opinion on how JS should be used. Many frameworks have come and gone. But after more than a decade of investing in the Javascript language, it keeps rewarding. |