The frontend development space is hot. According to , JavaScript is the most popular programming language with developers around the world. Stack Overflow’s 2018 Developer Survey That being said, the frontend development space is also large. To some, frontend development means jQuery, or vanilla . To others, they’re deep in the React world, or in TypeScript. incredibly JavaScript To celebrate the launch of my new project , I looked at the first three weeks of job postings across many job boards — Frontend Jobs, of course, but a number of other incredibly popular places for developers to find gigs right now — , , and Hacker News’ monthly post, to discover any patterns or trends in what companies are hiring for. The results were pretty illuminating! Frontend Jobs Stack Overflow Jobs WeWorkRemotely “Who is hiring?” Just a brief plug here — if you want to reach a diverse group of frontend developers around the world with your gig, consider posting on Frontend Jobs ! At the time of writing, posting is only $10 for ninety days! _The future is frontend. Find your next great frontend job writing React, Vue, Angular, and more. Work remotely…_www.frontendjobs.tech Find your next great frontend gig Tooling It’s no surprise that there’s a demand for React.js developers. The majority of listings we’ve seen over the last few weeks on Frontend Jobs have been focused on . Most job postings simply list React as the primary framework, but it’s quite common to see Redux, the popular state management library, mentioned as well. huge React.js developers _IBM is hiring a UI Lead (Web Developer). IBM is seeking a talented Front-End Web Developer (UI Developer) to optimize…_www.frontendjobs.tech UI Lead (Web Developer) at IBM In addition, many companies seem to be hiring with the expectation that framework knowledge is . If you haven’t worked with React.js, that seems to usually be OK — many job postings list experience with framework as a requirement, such as “experience with , , or ”. This seems to fit the narrative that I’ve found personally as a frontend developer: if you don’t know React in particular, having some experience working in the context of a framework-based frontend application can still help you get up to speed with whatever particular framework a company is using in production. transferable some React Angular Vue After a few years of teams slowly transitioning into the ES6 world and beyond, it seems as though the JavaScript world is generally leaning on Webpack, Gulp, and similar tools to build applications. ES6 is listed in most frontend job postings — enough so that we can pretty confidently say even if it listed, there’s a pretty good chance that the team is using it. I was pleasantly surprised to see the addition of in many of the job postings on Frontend Jobs: the advantages to a typed JS superset can really make a huge difference to how effectively a team can ship resilient and effective code. isn’t TypeScript _Garden is hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer. Garden is a development platform for multi-service backend systems. We…_www.frontendjobs.tech Senior Front-End Engineer at Garden Finally, it’s encouraging to see that many frontend job postings explicitly call out the ability to write tests code — that being said, I haven’t seen a specific test framework be called out enough so far to have a sense of what most teams are using. The 2018 State of JavaScript survey might fill in some detail here: according to the section of the survey, Jest and Mocha are neck and neck in terms of usage in the community, so adding either of these tools to your toolkit could be useful in the interview process. and testable “Testing” Experience levels It’s to find a junior gig in frontend development. Shockingly, just 2% of the posts on Frontend Jobs are , and sites like Stack Overflow Jobs and WeWorkRemotely see few junior job postings in comparison to mid-level and senior frontend engineers. Even genuine junior frontend engineer posts on most job boards are expecting of experience! hard junior a year or more _Racerfish is hiring a Web Developer Frontend. You master all modern front-end technologies of HTML via SASS and…_www.frontendjobs.tech Web Developer Frontend at Racerfish Conversely, it is an incredible time to be a senior frontend developer. Almost half of the job postings on Frontend Jobs are for , which is remarkable given that many of the frontend tools and frameworks that we use to build applications right now are relatively new — React, for instance, is only five years old! senior or tech lead-level developers Cracking this problem still seems pretty hard in 2019. If you’re beginning your journey into frontend development, you clearly need the opportunity to sit down and work for a few years–with this, you can learn and “level up” to become a mid-level frontend developer. There’s a huge demand for mid-level and senior developers in the field, but a lack of companies willing to hire junior developers and steward them through a couple years’ worth of growth! I would to see more companies taking junior developers in and helping them evolve into mid-level and senior developers: it feels like it would be good for the industry as a whole. actually love _Ask Lorem is hiring a Lead Frontend Engineer. **Our mission: ** Empower the modern day business owner to succeed with…_www.frontendjobs.tech Lead Frontend Engineer at Ask Lorem Methodologies When it comes to team management, it’s very common for job postings this year to mention experience/familiarity with . Many don’t list what particular experience they’re looking for, but if we had to guess, it’d be with ideas like and . Agile SCRUM estimation _Later is hiring a Intermediate Front End Developer. At Later we believe in the power of Images. Images to communicate…_www.frontendjobs.tech Intermediate Front End Developer at Later Ask most people in technology right now and they’ll tell you that . We continue to see a fair amount of hiring for , both at companies that still have a “hub” (think a San Francisco office, but a team distributed around the US) at companies that are fully distributed. Even though it does seem anecdotally as if more teams are hiring remote as time proceeds, it’s still by far the minority, unless you’re looking at a remote-specific job board :) remote work is the future remote developers and _Zapier is hiring a Frontend Engineer. We're looking for a Frontend Engineer to join the engineering team at Zapier…_www.frontendjobs.tech Frontend Engineer at Zapier Looking at most remote job postings, they seem to focus on to developers. For instance, Frontend Job’s “remote” section is almost entirely dedicated to senior-level hires. Each team is different, but it seems as though most expect senior-level engineers to be comfortable and productive in a remote environment. mid-level senior Conclusions Being a frontend developer in 2019 is tricky. There’s so many frameworks to choose from, an overwhelming amount of things to learn, and a rich ecosystem of tutorials, guides, and courses to follow along the way. With that in mind, if your goal is to be hired as a frontend developer, it’s worthwhile to prioritize the tools and frameworks that will get you hired. From my perspective, it seems like the bang for your buck as a frontend developer right now is to , and if you’ve been in the industry for a few years, as a senior developer, things are probably going pretty great right now! best learn React I plan to revisit this post and understand how these observations have changed by the end of year. The JavaScript world moves quickly, and as we see the proliferation of tools like , and serverless technology, the line between frontend and developer seems as though it’s starting to blur. Regardless, it does seem like it’s a time to get into the frontend development world. GraphQL full-stack great _15 Full Stack jobs at companies like Founders Factory, Ask Lorem, Moved_frontendjobs.tech Full Stack Jobs If you’re looking for a gig in the frontend development world, check out Frontend Jobs! You can also , and to get new jobs directly in your inbox. follow us on Twitter join our mailing list _The latest Tweets from Frontend Jobs (@getfrontendjobs). The best frontend jobs from around the world. 🌎🌍🌏_twitter.com Frontend Jobs (@getfrontendjobs) | Twitter Sorry, another plug here — if you are getting started in the frontend development community, check out my project Byteconf ! I’m building free developer conferences for everyone, streamed online–for instance, Byteconf JavaScript , a two-day JavaScript conference, on March 1st-2nd. Follow us on Twitter , and stop by our Discord server : we have almost a thousand people at time of writing chatting about web development, their professional careers, and more! Originally published at www.byteconf.com .

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