(Part 2) Best products from r/Frontend

Sorry for the troubles. I think surgery can play a number on you emotionally sometimes.

Have you read Cal Newport’s Deep Work? Great book on staying focused and getting more done in less time.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1455586692/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_HkCwDbT349AWC

Technically, architecture. Objects and arrays and all the neat stuff you can do with them. Learn about the Constructor Object, how to structure code. This book, I recommend it.

Best one you can buy new around that price: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DT4A2R4

Checkout http://www.laptophits.com/ for other options. It's a site that aggregates a list of all laptops mentioned in different Reddit threads and sorts them by mentions and price.

I feel compelled to recommend this fairly recent book: Frontend Architecture for Design Systems


If books on specific frontend technologies (JS, CSS, Angular, etc.) are dots, this book would be the lines connecting many of them. It's not heavy in any one topic, but discusses the relationships between them. I'd recommend it to anyone doing front end, but particularly to more junior-mid level devs

besides these two books I would also recommend this one:
https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Patterns-Stoyan-Stefanov-ebook/dp/B0046RERXE
and I agree that playing with the real code and real problems will teach you the most

With regards to 'shark fin looking mice', You give this a try for $13 - https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Ergonomic-Optical-Vertical-Buttons/dp/B00FPAVUHC

It's been a relief to my wrist.

>Am I alone in feeling this way?

Nope. I'm a 33 year old frontend dev with 3 years of experience. I'm working for a company, making good money for the area, but we've only got two, simple sites. One I built last year and we're getting ready to launch a completely overhauled version of our flagship site. Once the site goes live next month, all that's really left for me is to maintain it and possibly a few internal web projects. The only other dev in the company is my boss, who is the CTO and too busy to really mentor me.

So I've been job hunting because I've become complacent and stagnant in my skills and I want to be more marketable if they ever decide they don't need a full-time web developer. The problem is, I was a junior developer with less than a year experience before starting here. Since then, I've just been working on websites in Bootstrap with very limited interactivity in OctoberCMS... something that's probably not going to impress any future employers.

Since my portfolio is empty, I've just made a pact with myself to try to finish 2-3 small, side-projects a month until the right job opening comes along. Like, you, my logic is weak, so I've been reading "Think Like a Programmer", which I think is helping.

A couple days late, but this book is a must-read on this topic:
https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522625510&sr=8-1&keywords=clean+code

You should read this book

I have 3:

• 4k 27'' LG: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MQEGC8N
  
  
• 27'' LG: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XFGCKL6
  
  
• 27'' Asus: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B17C5KO
  
  
  The 4k is in the middle and the other 2 are each on each side, the setup left to right is: -Sketch/Adobe -Vim -Chrome
  
  3 monitors is 10/10 for frontend imho