r/reactjs • • 7h ago

Discussion As a self-taught React/Next.js developer, I'm honestly worried about my future in this AI era. What should I do?

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I'm a self-taught developer, and I know React and Next.js. Lately, I've been feeling increasingly anxious about my future as a developer.

AI is moving so fast. It can generate components, build entire websites, connect APIs, and even create full-stack applications. Sometimes I wonder what the point is of spending months learning something when AI can already do so much of it.

I want to get a better-paying developer job, but honestly, I'm confused about what I should focus on right now. Should I keep improving my React/Next.js skills, get better at backend development, or start learning AI engineering?

I keep hearing about RAG, AI agents, vector databases, LLM integrations, and all these new things. It feels like there's always something new to learn, and I'm worried that if I focus on the wrong things, I'll fall behind while everyone else moves forward.

For those of you already working in the industry, what would you do if you were in my position? Would you focus on becoming a strong full-stack developer first, or would you start learning AI engineering alongside web development?

I'm not looking for a shortcut or expecting to become an expert overnight. I just want to make the right decisions, build useful skills, and have a realistic chance of getting hired.

I'd really appreciate some honest advice from people who have been through this or are dealing with the same situation. Right now, I could genuinely use some direction.


r/reactjs • • 22h ago

Discussion How are you handling docs for a React component library?

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I’ve been cleaning up a small React component library I built for a few internal projects and the code itself is fine but the docs are starting to get messy. Right now every component has examples, props a few usage notes and sometimes little edge cases that are easy to forget. I tried keeping everything in the repo as markdown and that works but once the number of components started growing it became annoying to actually browse. I’ve seen a lot of people here recommend stuff and I like the idea of keeping the docs in Git and not having to build the docs site myself and I want to know if that is a good idea or not?

For people maintaining React libraries do you keep everything close to the code or use something separate like Storybook, GitBook, Mintlify, Docusaurus etc? Curious what actually stays maintainable once the library gets bigger.


r/reactjs • • 3h ago

Portfolio Showoff Sunday Experimenting with animated tooltips in TypeScript

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Hey everyone!

Been working on Tip Glide, a small framework-agnostic tooltip library written in TypeScript.

It uses a single shared tooltip that moves between elements and adjusts its size to fit the content. It also handles viewport boundaries, so the tooltip adjusts its position when there's not enough space.

A few things you can configure are the movement, directional lean, hover delays, arrow, and enter/exit animations.

It has zero runtime dependencies and comes with adapters for React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Astro and Preact, along with a vanilla JS API.

There's an interactive playground where you can mess around with the settings and see how everything behaves.

Would love some feedback on the movement, especially when switching quickly between elements, but also on the API and anything else that could be improved.

Live demo & playground | npm | GitHub | Portfolio


r/reactjs • • 19h ago

Resource For the library creators

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