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Call me crazy, but I honestly believe that you do not have to fully keep up with it all to be a successful, senior level dev in the JS world. You do need to know when it is time to modernize and level up - when your comfort zone is outdated, when something truly innovative comes around, etc. But you do not need to know every new framework and the incremental innovation that come along, at least not until/unless they get so much traction that they become a commonplace solution in the dev world.

Do what works, until it does not work. Then learn something new to make it work again, and work better.

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> you do not have to fully keep up with it all to be a successful, senior level dev

Yes, this is what changed. Things were certainly not like that when the first question was asked. That basically means the churn is over, or at least that we are in a calm period.

Everybody complaining about new tools is missing the point. New tools will always appear. The question is if you have to move like crazy between them or if you can stay put for a long while and reap the benefits of learning them.

I recently built a search engine backend for our rock climbing database. Web dev is new to me (I'm an iOS dev primarily). From all the stuff I've read on hn I chose to write a typescript api that uses Zapatos to interface with a postgres db and I could not be happier with it (for the most part - node errors can be vague and disconnected due to async/await but perhaps I've not figured that part out yet).

Writing typescript is a real pleasure once I figured out the incantations necessary for the tsconfig and package.json files, and Zapatos allows pretty elegant composition of sql fragments that can all be typesafe and injection proof. The way Zapatos can type the return of complex sql seems like magic.

As an outsider I'd say im a fan of what I've seen of the current js ecosystem, although I'm only talking backend stuff, no idea about frontend.

> a search engine backend for our rock climbing database

Sounds cool! I code (hobby/fun/learning/career prep) but am really more interested in the world outside of computers (inc. some climbing). I'd love to talk if there are any opportunities with UKC! (I should mention I'm US based and have experience mainly with Python but some Javascript, too.)

We're not hiring at the moment I'm afraid, and I suspect a US candidate probably wouldn't be considered due to the time zone difference.

Fair enough!

Depending on your search requirements, you may be able to manage what you need with just Postgres and JS as an interface. Postgres is seriously awesome.

https://gist.github.com/cpursley/e3586382c3a42c54ca7f5fef166... (some maybe useful links at the bottom)

Hey thanks I'll take a look at that.

How much data do you have in terms of number of entities and raw bytes?

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