New to the forum (and contracting)

[SueEllen]

Looking for Javascript Developer or Frontend Developer for my first gig.

Have you got a portfolio?

[northernladuk]

5 years at current employer? Is that straight from Uni or do you have plenty of experience before the 5 years?

[SeanT]

5 years at current employer? Is that straight from Uni or do you have plenty of experience before the 5 years?

5 years in front end dev is a lifetime of experience

[northernladuk]

5 years in front end dev is a lifetime of experience

Oh. Right. Didn't know that.

[serverside]

Front-end development has moved so quickly the last 3 years. It's infiltrating the back-end side of things with node.js (and increasingly C#/Java devs). You need to know React JS (and Redux) as a back-end developer while also having a foot in the Ops space with AWS / Azure / GCP knowledge.

Being truly "Full stack" was achieveable ~5 years ago but even the front-end stack by itself is huge now. Hence ...

https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/ (back-end)

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-...6-d3a717dd577f (front-end)

Crazy Interesting times!

[kaiser78]

5 years in front end dev is a lifetime of experience

Not necessarily for a contractor...