Ask HN: Is working on an old front end stack going to hurt my career I am working on a SPA for the last 6 months. The frontend stack is jQuery and vanilla JavaScript for the most part. The product is actually good and the code base is huge. Most of my time goes into identifying and fixing bugs, I also get to work on new user stories but since I am new on the product I am mostly assigned bugs and doing testing so I can get familiar with the product. The good part is I got to learn core concepts of JavaScript like OOP in JS, how prototypes work in JS etc. React and other frontend frameworks are all the rage nowadays and I am afraid if I keep working with the old stack and don't update my technical knowledge in line with new industry trends then it's going to hurt my career in the future. I am confused about what to do, should I start looking for a job where react or some other framework is being used on the frontend or keep on the current job for now? |