Then you use an existing datepicker library, and customize it.
Writing your own datepicker is 99% of the times a rookie mistake.
Writing your own datepicker is 99% of the times a rookie mistake.
If I‘m hiring a front-end developer I‘m sure as hell not paying them to write custom datepickers all day.
Development is full of compromises.
And what do you think their job title and experience are?
> If I‘m hiring a front-end developer I‘m sure as hell not paying them to write custom datepickers all day.
This is the opposite of what you said above.
Should every frontend developer be reinventing date pickers from scratch just to demonstrate how good they are? I don't think so.
That's why I said 99%. Maybe there's an 1% or even less where it makes sense to reinvent it because you're Airbnb or Amazon or Google or you are in the date pickers business.
But yes, you are still a frontend developer if you don't do your own datepicker and focus on shipping your company product. And date pickers are built by frontend developers. What's your point?