Comment by whstl
18 hours ago
> most web developers who learned their craftsin the last decade learned frontend React-first, and a lot of them genuinely don't have experience working without it
That's not cynical, that's the reality.
I do a lot of interviews and mentor juniors, and I can 100% confirm that.
And funny enough, React-only devs was a bigger problem 5 years ago.
Today the problem is developers who can *only* use Next.js. A lot can't use Vite+React or plain React, or whatever.
And about 50% of Ruby developers I interviewed from 2022-2024 were unable to code a FizzBuzz in Ruby without launching a whole Rails project.
>> a lot of them genuinely don't have experience working without [react]
> Today the problem is developers who can only use Next.js. A lot can't use Vite+React or plain React, or whatever.
Do you want to hire such developers?
No, that's why I said "problem".
My job during the hiring process is to filter them.
But that's me. Other companies might be interested.
I often choose to work on non-cookie-cutter products, so it's better to have developers with more curiosity to ask questions, like yourself asked above.
My test for FE is to write a floating menu in JSFiddle with only JS, CSS, and HTML. Bonus if no JS.
If you can do that, then you can probably understand how everything else works.
Yep, that's a good test. And it's good even if it's for a React only position.