Melb market is also filled with Dynamics and Sitecore work. But as .net dude said JS is where it's all at. I found it very hard to get work in Melb with no Angular or React experience.
"Full stack" they usually want Angular or React, css, webapi, entity framework, sql server. On Friday, 16 June 2017, DotNet Dude <[email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > Hey Preet, > > Generally, Azure and JS frameworks like React and Angular is where "it" is > mostly at these days as far as general .net wed dev goes. It also depends > on location from my experience. I'm not familiar with the Auckland market > at all. In Melbourne most of the maintenance work is in mvc, very little if > any webforms, LOTS of Angular/React/whatever JS framework. Same for Sydney. > Canberra is mostly webforms and mvc from what I know (govt is usually a bit > behind), Qld and WA I am not sure about. > > If you're wanting to get back into web dev I would ask you why. Not > joking. :) If your reason is because you want to update and get back into > it I'd say go hard on Javascript. If you're after money I'd say forget all > that and get into Salesforce lol. Kidding. Well not really. As I said > earlier you need to know your market too if you're wanting to be valuable > (hireable). > > Cheers > > On Friday, 16 June 2017, Preet Sangha <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi team, >> >> Got Friday OT question for you all. I started .net with the beta and >> used aspx all those years ago. I stayed with ASPX until about 2007 but >> about then I moved into doing more desktop development. I'd really like to >> dust off and polish my web dev skills but there seems to be a plethora of >> things that have sort of past me by Azure, Javascript, Angular (?) to name >> a few. >> >> I know that fair few of you do web dev so i was wondering what you could >> advise as the must have skills today! >> >> Just to give you a history, from 2007 I did WCF/WF & WPF type stuff, from >> 2010 I did more Cubes and SSRS BI stuff and for the past couple of years >> I've been doing pure legacy desktop C++/CLI/.Net so not a lot of webbie >> stuff at all :-) >> >> >> regards, >> Preet, in Auckland NZ >> >>
