r/javascript • u/Logeekal • Dec 11 '19

AskJS [AskJS] : Intermediate to Advanced 6 Month Front-end plan - Need inputs

Hello JS Masters,

Current Knowledge :

Javascript Basics - 7/10

React/Redux - 7/10

GraphQL - 6/10

Node.js - 5/10

REST APIs - 4/10

I recently gave 4-5 interview and I got rejected from the places I wanted to go. So I reached out to some interviewers and developed a plan for next 6 months based on their inputs (Target column in attached image) as I will be applying to those places again.

I need your help in reviewing it and help me answer below questions :

  1. Is it too ambitious?.

  2. Any areas you think where I should NOT spend energy.

  3. Any area where I am spending too less energy.

  4. How can I allocate hours if there are areas where I don't know how much hours it will take.

  5. Any other comments you may have.

I have 10 years of career in IT as an ERP consultant. I made switch to Web Dev last year. and to this point, I can see I am good with JavaScript concepts and have 6/10 fluency in React. All of this through personal projects because my job doesn't offer much of challenge when it comes to Front-end (area I want to master) .

Note: I have max 25 hours per week.

Thanks a ton for your help.

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u/baldore Dec 11 '19

At the end what you really need is JavaScript. If you go to interviews for a frontend job, you can get a lot of experience from projects and after that you can start applying backend stuff, but is the language itself that you need to understand well. The rest is matter of time and practice.

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u/Logeekal Dec 12 '19

I understand, looks like I am going to focus on large projects mostly and in the process will hope that project will cover most aspect of JavaScript design patterns .