Hello, there. I apologize as I am not really good at talking with people. I have been learning web development for many years and I always keep struggling with it. I have been teaching English in Japan for nearly ten years and I hate it. For this reason, I have always been rushing to learn web development, only to be rejected by many companies. I have been trying to take it slow, however, it seems that web development has recently become needlessly complex and stressful. Trying to write unit tests for React has gone downhill ever since create-react-app was deprecated. Trying to write test using Vite has been an endurance test. I cannot understand what rollupErrors are and all that stuff. I even tried using Parcel, but to no avail. I can’t help but wonder if coding or web development is right for me after all. I know this kind of question has been done to death before by others, but would it be best for me to give up entirely? At the same time, I don’t want to waste my life away teaching English in Japan.
you may want to ask for help instead of giving up, you could create MREs for your apps and explains what issues you are having (https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example)
but if you want to give up, that’s also something you can do
I can’t answer that for you because at the core of your question is figuring out what is important to you. What I can do it tell you about my journey through this and hope that it’s useful to you.
5 years ago, in my mid 40’s I decided I needed to switch careers and I chose coding. I had a lot of stops and starts and switching directions and trying different ways to learn. Actually learning to program was fun and I have a knack for it, but figuring out what to learn was really tough. Back then, learning how to program was a fantastic career path if you could learn the skills. Today, the hiring market is dismal. I personally decided to give up on being a professional programmer and try a different direction. But I still am on here learning because I genuinely like programming; I just understand that I have failed to make it my job. And for me, it’s a little bit of a bummer, but it’s okay. Life will move on and so will I.
So, the harsh truth is, now is a terrible time to get hired as a programmer. The market is just simply against it. That said, if you love doing web design then there is nothing stopping you from pursuing it. No one knows what the market will be like in 6 months, or a year, or whatever. For you, it’s a matter of deciding how much you enjoy web design and how long you’re willing to wait to make that happen, and then figuring out how to balance those things.
you should decide on your own, if you feel you want to continue, continue, if not, don’t