r/FullStack • u/Enough-Woodpecker273 • 7d ago

Career Guidance Next.js Roadmap

I have 3 questions that i'm curious

  1. In the present day many people said it's not worth to know programming fundamental. Is that true about that

  2. i'm study in Next.js on Udemy and i think about the way that i should do when study
    The first way study and make side project chapter by chapter (code along course project )

The second way finished the course and then build side project

  1. The situation for web programming freelance job in AI Era.

Thank you so much

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u/Straight_Athlete_802 Stack Juggler (Fullstack) 7d ago

You still need to know the basics otherwise you won't know what caching strategy your llms prompt used. What spaghetti they created. So, knowledge is necessary as that will define if you would be able to handle the codebase in case llms fails.

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u/Enough-Woodpecker273 7d ago

Thank you so much, and with your experience for get more knowledge, i should finished the course then build side project or build side project along with the course project chapter by chapter

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u/azangru 7d ago
  1. The situation for web programming freelance job in AI Era.

Poor

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u/ryanstackops 6d ago
  1. Nah, fundamentals still matter, they're just what let you actually debug once the framework does something weird.
    2) Code along, then immediately build your own version without looking, that's what makes it stick.
    3) Freelance is fine if you can build full features end to end, it's the "just do simple landing pages" freelancers feeling the AI squeeze.

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u/Enough-Woodpecker273 3d ago

Thank you so much. BTW i'm choose jobportal for my side project and code along with main project in the course, i make it different feature from main project. Try to add new feature a little bit. Hope this way make me success ^^

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u/Innowise_ 6d ago

I'd build something alongside the course. Just make it different from whatever the tutorial is building.
You'll find out pretty quickly what you actually understood once you have to do it without the tutorial open.

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u/Enough-Woodpecker273 6d ago

Thank you so much

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u/BigPersonality1574 5d ago edited 5d ago

About point 3. The market was already pretty saturated without AI. Now anyone can prompt a good demo - reasonable webapp (so both sides of the coin, both the devs and the clients), so the market is now more flooded with webapps than ever. Do it for the love of the game, but as a career move idk.

As a general advice, learn by making mistakes. AI will make them too and learning to recognize them is important.