Learn Less. Think More.
Before it's too late, you need to hear this.
Your professors are teaching you enterprise patterns that will make you write worse code. Your bootcamp is teaching you frameworks that will be obsolete in 3 years.
What They're Teaching You
"Design Patterns"
You've learned FactoryFactoryImpl. You've learned StrategyFactorySingleton. You've learned to solve problems you don't have.
The original Design Patterns book was written to work around C++'s limitations. Those limitations don't exist in JavaScript.
"Clean Architecture"
You've learned about layers. Presentation layer. Business logic layer. Data access layer. Repository pattern. Service layer. DTOs. Mappers.
HTML has no layers. Your database has no layers. The user just wants to read the thing.
"Best Practices"
You've learned that you need linting. Formatting. Type safety. 100% test coverage. CI/CD. Code reviews. PR templates. Commit message conventions.
You can ship working software today with none of those things.
What You Should Learn Instead
Most "developers" can't build a form that works without React.
You should be able to center a div without looking it up.
Your framework hides this from you. That's the problem.
The best code is the code you don't write.
The Harsh Truth
You've spent 4 years learning to build systems that don't need to exist.
Learning dependency injection frameworks
Building your own state management
Writing tests for code that doesn't matter
Building actual things that real people use
You Still Have Time
Before you graduate, before you get a job, before you become another cog in the enterprise machine—learn to build things simply.
The web doesn't need more frameworks. It needs more developers who understand it.
Start at the Beginning →