[lsalvatore]

No, the career growth happened in 2015 when we adopted React and stopped endlessly inserting JS and CSS tags from jQuery plugins. Backbone made things worse. Angular made things worse. React objectively changed my life and allowed me to work several remote jobs at once. I watched half a dozen startups adopt React for the better. There is no similar growth or usage to React. React is the king.

[goatlover]

Sounds like a religious experience.

[djbusby]

Exactly. The first time I observed this it was some Perl/CGI framework who's name I've forgotten. Then ColdFusion, then COM, PHP (Cake, Zend) and on the front there was that hotness before jQuery (which I've forgot), jQuery, that other one for a spell and now React.

Loads of people board the train at the most recent stop and are amazed how "fast" it's going.

At least with surfing all the waves are different - in web-tech it feels like the same wave over and over.

Just wait (shakes cane) it'll happen to you too.

[innocenat]

> there was that hotness before jQuery (which I've forgot)

Prototype and Script.aculo.us? I remembered being in Prototype camp because I deemed jQuery to be too different (and in a hindsight, that was one of my worst decision in tech)

There's also YUI, MooTools, etc.

[djbusby]

> Script.aculo.us

Yes. Thank you!