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by FishAngular12 2739 days ago
Wow thank you so much for your time on this answer. You've really helped calm my fears and doubts, as well as provided me with a foundation for a strategy to make myself a marketable candidate.

I've found a Multiplatform React Native To Do/Notes application that is open source and on GitHub. I think I will try to cut my teeth with RN and JS on this application.

If I am successful with this, and eventually fix a couple bugs and perhaps implement a new feature, would that be helpful at demonstrating my aptitude with the JS/RN framework?

Thanks again for taking time out of your day with this great contribution.

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For someone fresh out of college or a boot camp that might be useful for me, but when looking at a candidate with a lot of experience (5+ years), I would not really be too interested in languages they used unless they were in large projects at a full time role. Coming from where you are, I would think getting some chops in a more mainstream language would be helpful. If that language were to be JS I would not personally be looking for anything related to React/Angular/Other framework but just general knowledge of the language and, for JS specifically, the web platform and tools.