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What skills do you have outside of front-end development? How many different frameworks do you know?

I had a decent amount of contracting work going before accepting the position that I had most recently, so I will probably start offering that again, depending on what kind of response I get from the applications I submit. This most recent job I got from posting in the monthly `Who's Hiring` thread back in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205867

As far as frameworks, I'm quite familiar with React and React Native (app in Google Play and App Store), Redux, Angularjs, etc. I haven't worked with Vue yet, but I'm looking forward to trying it now that I've suddenly found myself with some free time!

The remote team that I have been working with most recently are all updating our resumes. A portion if the fully-remote engineering team is located in Europe while a couple of us are located in the USA.

If you or someone you know is hiring, feel free to send me an email at the address in my profile and I can put you in touch with a few fantastic remote developers who I happen to know are available and who do great work.

We're not hiring, but I would encourage you to add at least one backend language to your repetoire, and some ops (like basic AWS, Docker, etc). Flexibility is what will make you valuable, and tbh, in a downturn I think front-ends will be deprioritized.

That's great advice. I don't usually choose it to show off in interviews as it's not my strongest skill, but I currently work full-stack across an app with Rails backend and Angular/React front-end. I also have experience with Express, but haven't worked with it for a couple of years.

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