Professional direction of the front end

First, to explore the road of pure professional direction

In a flash, he graduated almost 10 years, and 10 years ago I was writing pages, 10 years later, I'm still writing pages.

This situation is rare at present, both my predecessors or contemporaries of the same year into the line, almost all have been out of line, at least I know that is true.

Each person is an individual, there is no step by step, nothing of course, the key is to know what he wants, what you have is that they can reach the other side of how far.

If 35 years ago, I feel that their professional contribution to the team enterprises coming to an end, I would consider this a transition to matter to people, but, when the accumulation of technology breakthroughs to a certain stage, you will understand my heart, exploring Road they can do a lot, they can not come out of a people's pure professional direction.

This is a unique journey, there is no reference, there is no reference, may trip was not successful, there may be a different kind of style, but life is still alive, so when this would follow their inner guidance, to create their own value, bearish those external dependence.

Worth thinking

So, a long time, I have been thinking about such a question: how to focus on front-end expertise, to bring the greatest value to the team?

I summed up the following points, also the direction he has been all these years of efforts:

1. Project Technical crucial

   To reflect their own professional value in the project, on the side of the front end in terms of experience include:

   • Any dynamic efficiency can be realized designer proposed;

   • All kinds of graphics and image processing technology;

   • Research and practice in the field of a small minority, such as accessibility;

   • Practice and landing new features of new technologies;

   • Complex product of complex systems architecture and design;
      

2. Foundation construction technology

   Individual technology again strong, too strong of a person you just, if we make around colleagues is also very strong, that for the team on the great value.
   
   Which has a very effective way is to put the expertise that you've learned into infrastructure, including the underlying framework or UI component library, or standard ending programs.

   For example, for the front end, the accessibility of this knowledge should be essential, especially for the millions of ten million DAU's products, in fact, people understand and use the product in a handful.
   
   This is well understood, not any law requiring a product must be done accessible, made accessible only serve a small number of people, and not promotion and pay rise, we want employees to generate electricity by love, really hard.
   
   However, if you put these learning and research directly into the underlying infrastructure, the other co-workers will be able to use without the need to learn, equivalent to other colleagues also let you become very strong.
   
   For the team, it is a valuable thing.

   However, if only for utilitarian purposes repeat-create the wheel, it really is better to fork a good localization of open source projects, good for everyone.

3. Tools & Productivity release

   Once the work appeared in a scene duplication of effort, you can consider using technical means capable of liberating the productive forces, do a visual desktop or Web tools are available.

   As the front-end, work has a natural advantage, the interface is the ability to visualize the number one, especially for the production designers, product managers, operators use the editing tools are especially popular, which is the back end of the students can not control.

   Modern front-end technology is developing rapidly, a variety of new features extremely powerful, and ultimately of Web products almost comparable to desktop software.
   
   Cross-platform, their own people do not consider the compatibility with a variety of new features can be used to try, but also a tremendous value, so be sure to cool things generosity, we must take the initiative to find demand.

4. Knowledge sharing and personnel training

   Again, you are a strong man again, with no eggs, especially the front end of this post to show bias, called themselves they.
   
   You find a way to get around colleagues have become excellent, so do a lot of expertise to share, others grow, the team will grow, and this is the value of the contribution.

   Some people do not be silly, that knowledge sharing was let out technology improves, they will be stepped on, to conceal it.
   
   Be sure to mind fresh, workplace rank with your team positive contribution to the company's strong hook, with the technical level is the weak link.

   Actively seek opportunities to bring new people new culture, to really want to bring new people, help them grow, rather than deal with performance, or leading me to take me to barely cope.
   
   Man must have a conscience, the couple started or very important, do not hastily deal with your own in this life cold all right, but do not hurt other people.

For me personally, there is another special value is the "mascot" [ha ha] 
 

Second, the limitations and the end

Over the years around the front end professional, continue to create value in the concept to guide their actions, and indeed made a little insignificant results.

There are project outputs, infrastructure and applications are also many products, do a lot of tools, some tools release of thousands of human visitors, the number of knowledge sharing within the team is far ahead, a week for fresh technology for all strangers, intern training, as well as active participation of a large number of recruitment work.

However, people always want to continue to grow, nearly 10 years working in the front line of this node, I found pure expertise to further enhance the value of this road to the team less and less space.

First, this project, people always overestimate the value of their line of work on the product, front-end developers are no exception, in fact, a product needs to be successful collaboration, there is no obvious short board have strengths, but I almost did not see what products are on the front end of the strengths highlighted.

Standing business point of view, the difference between the value of the front end 80 points and 90 points brought not large, or that is not an emergency, give an extreme example, the quality of your site CSS worldwide Number 1, then what? Then no, your product will not this fast, and increase revenue. You know, the product is not a work of art.

Although my own professional growth is very clear, but also to continue to work and accumulation, however, how to bring significant benefits to the project to enhance the product has stumped me, I do not think that webGL, to fill the blank piece of the team, as other , I did not think clearly.

This piece of infrastructure, first of all lines of business are many, limited individual effort, different lines of business for technical patterns are not the same, not fully taken into account. And various technical framework surging, like me antique indeed overwhelmed, start date.

The problem is that the demand for productivity tool is always limited, after addressing the needs, once stabilized, this area can do it less and less.

The problem is that the absorption of knowledge sharing, aggregation and landing knowledge of how to make the couple never heard of can GET to this knowledge, the value of sharing in this regard than the number of stuffing and formalism much higher.

So, there are problems put in front of me: how to further enhance the value to bring significant expertise to the team through the front of it?

I found the front end of my professional way encountered limitations, professional direction to see the front end.

Slightly sad! But, rest assured, I do not have to worry about, this is an issue bound to encounter. To post a pure technology, especially the front-end technology expect to achieve a very high level, that is impossible.

You can not say very much front-end technology, the company actually increased to tens of millions of revenue, promotion and pay rise then took the pinnacle of life. Even if your company is training institutions, even catch up with the front end of the training peak time, it will not bring so many benefits.

Compared to my predecessors or peers, I have explored more than four or five years than they are, go more extreme and more solid, more fully prepared to, and no regrets.

At least they left their mark here today, proven, a technician, even rely on expertise to create value, but also have some of their own wonderful.

So, everything is natural, the pure professional tends to top, then I began to explore a line in addition, a growing and upgrading from a completely blank dimensions, the equivalent of two rockets started strong para-professional piece line further growth. Here, "another line" refers to the people and things.

Third, not open around the people and things

In short, by pushing others to promote the professional growth of the team, to promote the professional growth of team affairs through the floor.

For example, we have done so much together large and small projects, those good professional practice and there is no summary landing, there does not translate into a lot of experience and learning resources.

The value of this thing is very substantial, but it is driving these things is not to say you will do a powerful set of professional and technical, to the dealings with people, how to develop policy, summary of how, in what form transformation, how to promote the follow-up and so on all need to think about; if we need a professional site archive, where appropriate in their own development or use an existing platform, need to use what resources, what are the difficulties encountered in practice is another bunch of needs think about.

While these issues are not required expertise, however, the value for the entire team to bring this expertise is indeed very significant, which is through another line, that is, people and things to make their career further.

Also, for example knowledge sharing, when speaking listened very high, the result after a period of time, what was learned, and remember. There is a more serious problem, that is, after the new entrants, before sharing those wonderful how content retroactively, or at least know what aspects of issues before a colleague had a great share, you can directly learn.

Therefore, even if the average share several times a week, no further provisions for sharing knowledge if after carding to better presented in the form, you do so much worth sharing brings, or input-output ratio is not necessarily how high , showing that this is a very able to significantly enhance the professional value of the direction of the entire team.

But to enhance the same, this does not depend on the direction of your professional capacity, or to share with you the number, but better flow constraints, better tools aid, better cultural influence.

The success of all these things promote the landing, we can not do without dealing with people, such as the department colleagues, leadership, and colleagues in other departments, even the boss over there to provide resources.

So, to a certain stage, in order to further enhance the professional value of the team, people and things are not open around, but this one will be his own efforts to improve the next few years, local learning and growth.

Estimated to be no less successful techniques, dealing with people and not dealing with the code, not Zhilaizhiwang, or easy to make others happy, I am also aware of the problem, but I believe their plasticity, Rome was not built in a day slowly improve it, just worry about ah grinding mill in the workplace, grinding ah grinding, the edges are worn away, in the end is a good thing or a bad thing?

Fourth, the distant landscape

19 years regarded as a turning point in it, ask yourself, one leg gone for 10 years really is not easy, it's time to put the other leg slowly grow again.

The heart has the Tigers, fine sniffing the rose, not blindfolded external things, not because of mental disturbance broken language, step by step, methodical, patient progress, life is a long river, hoping to double health and strength of legs, took me to see the end the most beautiful scenery.