Google's puppeteer is also very easy to set up and seems reliable. It only supports Chrome, that might be a show stopper.

webdriver.io is better (IMHO) than webdriver and doesn't require a selenium server. You can plug it directly into the various browser drivers like chromedriver and geckodriver. The only drawback is I could never get it working inside a docker container, something most CI systems will need.

Saw a good tweet about this not so long ago:

A software developer’s confidence throughout their life:

0 years experience: I have no idea what’s going on

5 years experience: I AM A SENIOR DEVELOPER I CAN BUILD ANYTHING GET OUTTA MY WAY

10/15 years experience: I like my personal life

20 years experience: I AM AN IMPOSTOR

I've hit the 20 year mark and regularly feel like an impostor. Anyone who tells you they know exactly what they're doing all the time is lying, probably to themselves. Or maybe they're just at the 5 year mark haha.

Also, take comfort in the fact that the IT industry is horribly broken. We deal with ridiculous amounts of complexity that have nothing to do with the problem we're actually trying to solve. Customers couldn't give a shit about SQL, web sockets, caching, REST, GraphQL, tensorflow, machine learning, etc, etc, etc.

Point is, feel good, buddy. Keep learning, keep improving. It's a great career in the grand scheme of things!

Even though "Apple says no". Fuckers.

I found productivity in react native very low, mostly due to lack of components for doing native stuff, but also having to learn the new markup and flexbox styling.

Is cordova / phonegap an option? I really don't know why it cops so much crap for performing badly. I can name several native apps released by google that perform like shit.

cordova works great for me.

Totally agreed, I love Windows (!!), but Windows update frustrates the hell outta me. The mugs on the Windows team in Redmond live in a bubble, a world of gigabit Internet connections. They have no idea what it's like to live with a 2Mbps ADSL connection (thanks Australian Liberal Party for royally fucking us over for the next 20 years). Windows update basically cripples my entire network whenever it decides to download an update, and they don't give a fuck.

How about waking the PC up at 3am and downloading then, you fucking scumbags??

I am currently in this really "opposite world" where the client doesn't seem to care. Doesn't bother coming to planning meetings, doesn't do the things they are asked to do when they do show up. They're still paying the bills. Wat??