Ask HN: How do you realise that you are not a false positive developer?

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6 years ago

I was an average Frontend Designer from 2015-2018 who used to do code WordPress custom development, Bootstrap Sass customisation, Frontend coding etc. for small agency. Beginning of this year, I spent most of the time acquiring knowledge in JavaScript and React ecosystem. I have built open source projects on GitHub to demonstrate my ability to handle Frontend aspect of an application. My questions are:

1. What is the key criteria or realisation point where I am able to work a job as a professional Frontend Developer?

2. The more I learn JS, I realise the lesser I know and there is much more I need to cover. Some days, feeling of being a false positive kicks in and I start to believe that I am a fake and is not ready for a junior position even. This barrier tends to grow in day by day.

3. The decision to spend more time on learning technology and building personal projects solely over a longer period of time costed me on soft skills part and making connections. Is being an extraordinary articulator or good salesman a new vital facet of a Frontend developer?

4. Having a likening for CSS in JS world, or getting generalised by “UX Developer” not “Software Developer”, Does it lower the chances of being employable in current market (even though, you as a candidate are willing to learn React ecosystem but where is the line for a self-taught developer: design patterns, hooks, context, redux, saga, reselect, custom webpack bundling, flux, typescript, unit testing, jest)?

5. I have interest in CS and Maths but no clue on how these two fields amalgamate and what pathways from Frontend lead to them? I have curiosity about UNIX, Maths in general and would love to learn them more at an academic level to attain mastery.

I have attached my Github here: https://github.com/tpkahlon, in case someone wants to review my GitHub and personal projects.

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