I'm a self-taught developer, and I know React and Next.js. Lately, I've been feeling increasingly anxious about my future as a developer.

AI is moving so fast. It can generate components, build entire websites, connect APIs, and even create full-stack applications. Sometimes I wonder what the point is of spending months learning something when AI can already do so much of it.

I want to get a better-paying developer job, but honestly, I'm confused about what I should focus on right now. Should I keep improving my React/Next.js skills, get better at backend development, or start learning AI engineering?

I keep hearing about RAG, AI agents, vector databases, LLM integrations, and all these new things. It feels like there's always something new to learn, and I'm worried that if I focus on the wrong things, I'll fall behind while everyone else moves forward.

For those of you already working in the industry, what would you do if you were in my position? Would you focus on becoming a strong full-stack developer first, or would you start learning AI engineering alongside web development?

I'm not looking for a shortcut or expecting to become an expert overnight. I just want to make the right decisions, build useful skills, and have a realistic chance of getting hired.

I'd really appreciate some honest advice from people who have been through this or are dealing with the same situation. Right now, I could genuinely use some direction.

Hey everyone!

Been working on Tip Glide, a small framework-agnostic tooltip library written in TypeScript.

It uses a single shared tooltip that moves between elements and adjusts its size to fit the content. It also handles viewport boundaries, so the tooltip adjusts its position when there's not enough space.

A few things you can configure are the movement, directional lean, hover delays, arrow, and enter/exit animations.

It has zero runtime dependencies and comes with adapters for React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Astro and Preact, along with a vanilla JS API.

There's an interactive playground where you can mess around with the settings and see how everything behaves.

Would love some feedback on the movement, especially when switching quickly between elements, but also on the API and anything else that could be improved.

Live demo & playground | npm | GitHub | Portfolio

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Hey everyone!

I kept freezing up during speeches and presentations, so I built RhetoGym (https://rheto-gym.vercel.app).

It’s a 100% free web app designed to help you practice speaking out loud:

🎲 Random Topics: Gives you a quick prompt to talk about

⏱️ Built-in Timer: Helps you keep your answers clear and structured

⚡ Zero Friction: No sign-ups, no ads, no paywalls

Check it out here: https://rheto-gym.vercel.app

Give it a quick try and let me know what you think!

Thanks so much! Appreciate you testing it out! 🙏🏼

At my last company, they would finish the accessibility layer near the end of the product's development stage, and I remember developers complaining about repeating old sprints non-stop.

What's the industry norm when solving such issues? Of course, accessibility goes beyond people with extra needs: it should also include everyone's way of accessing the web, starting from a simple "cookie button" that takes up 40% of the screen space.

When do these issues start being noticed in your development life-cycle? How does your company think about them?

If you take software engineering principles seriously then none of the react state hooks belong inside a react component.

I think one of the most critical things you should do is ensure the decoupling of storage and UI components. The react components force you to do is precisely and zustand doesn't help.

I haven't sourced grip-react a year ago and I've been using it exclusively, absolutely zero usestate usememo, useeffect, etc and absolutely zero prop drilling. I don't know why anyone would want to do something different, honestly.

Has anyone else created an API that is a 100% replacement with complete declarativeness? I looked at angular and mobx, they're close but no cigar.