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by tambourine_man 1805 days ago
> It's non-trivial to pick up a front-end/full-stack engineering position at this point without having committed to React-specific development

I’m speaking from experience. I write PHP, jQuery and plain CSS. There’s plenty of market. Never felt React (or Angular, Ember, Backbone) where worth the trouble. Same for SASS, Typescript, WebPack. So I don’t use it. And it’s fine.

There’s of course job opportunities for a specific tech. Just don’t get those if you dislike them. There are plenty others.

Our industry is indeed much more fashion driven than it should for a field that aspires to be a hard science. But it is also so freaking huge that even niches can support a lot of people.