Do you want a simple ReactJS freelancer, or a React/Redux freelancer?
Webpack costs extra.
But seriously, the 'price-range' of a freelancing javascript developer that is acquainted with modern frameworks like React, is the full range that any freelancer, in any business can have.
Probably the very low (<10$/hour) and very high (200$+/hour) ends of the spectrum don't happen very often in this job, but still if I tell you 10$/hour to 150$/hour what would that mean?
Also it depends highly on the nature of the task. Short term will usually command higher price than long-term.
I sympathize with your trouble but what you describe seems exaggerated to me.
If within a year you made only a thousand dollars, why didn't you spend more time working on a side project, or sharpening your skills? Maybe the ones you currently have are not much in demand?
Also, freelancing sites do have a lot of low quality jobs, but if you spend some time digging around you can find decent jobs; e.g. I, a poor country resident, have found jobs that made me in a week as much as you claim to have made within the year.
And btw, I'm thirty-something, university drop-out and with a couple of huge holes in my CV. But that's not what I bring forward when asking for a job. Instead I project the most confident image that I have for myself and that's my advice to you, too (i.e. don't focus on the negativity of your current situation, it's not going to help you find a job).
If it seems exaggerated, that's because it is. Outside of NYC and SF, there's basically nowhere in the US where businesses wouldn't hire a competent programmer on the spot.
The reality is also that a 40+, non-degreed programmer will have their resume thrown away by the first line HR people in 95%+ of cases. Not qualified for senior jobs due to lack of a degree; not qualified for entry-level jobs due to lack of a degree and age.
If you want to be educated on this, feel free to make up a fake resume of a 40+, no-degree programmer and shop it around. Make a list of any responses you get. You can keep that list on an index card.
Well, GoogBookSoft comes to Canada every year and wastes many millions sponsoring J1s, TNs, H1Bs, and relocation while paying the same salaries as they do to Americans.
Why would they do that if there was no shortage of qualified American programmers in the bay?
If there is a shortage and companies go abroad to fill positions, they're technically 'holding down wages'. Otherwise wages would skyrocket into the atmosphere as more and more money chases the same few engineers. Less value would be produced at a higher cost.
I don't see why that would be a preferable situation for the industry or the country at large. Are you really struggling on your measly $100k + stock (at minimum) and desperately need more?
I remember buying the official edition of Mandrake 10.0, while my previous experience was only with Slackware.
It was so easy to install that I completely stopped using Windows, ever since.
Truth is though, that for me it died right about when it became Mandriva and Ubuntu was the new shinny distro, that wasn't only easy to install but it'd sent the disks right to your home.
This is one of the most annoyingly designed sites I've ever seen.
The float-to-the right-to-see-the-background effect, reminds of the awfulness of MySpace when DHTML was a thing. Only it's worse.
Also, the article loses a lot of credibility when it responds to anyone calling the ad-infested web horrible, with this:
""" No, it really wasn’t – it was perfectly fine, you’re just being a snob. The Web works well for me with the ads displayed. """
Yes, it's perfectly fine... If you want to punch-the-monkey, a dozen popups beneath your window, moving images that can cause photo-epilepsy all over the place and of course the latest trend:
"Oh, you scrolled a couple of times? Let me show you a huge overlay ad with a very dark backdrop(that isn't always click-to-dismiss) and a very obscure close button."
Truth is that people are naturally becoming more resistant to ads, which leads to making them more intrusive. And this in turn leads anyone that can, to seek ways to get rid of them.
This may continue for a few years, but I think that publishers should begin preparing for alternate sources of income, instead of hoping to go back in time.
Disclaimer: I've used ads, made even some(little) money of them. And I use AdBlock because the web is truly awful without it.
I have a pretty clear recollection of having heard about VCS in an undergraduate class, but presented in the most boring possible way, so I learned whatever I needed to regurgitate for the exam and moving one.
A few years later, I found myself working in the industry and using a real VCS (Microsoft's dont' recall the name), and realizing this was the same thing I have being doing lamely for the last two years with daily zip files and lots of notes on the README.txt for each project.
Being a progtammer is being a problem solver. The language hardly matters.
Try to solve this in your head with pseudo code and do not overcomplicate it. It's a very simple problem.
Also at your level, don't think of the language string handling facilities or other advanced Api's.
Just control structures and arrays.
Finally, it's fine to ask for help when trying to build something, but when trying to learn, it's cheating yourself of the opportunity to have that moment were you actually understand the problem.
So my advice is, go back to solving the problem and don't come back here to see for possible answers until you have it and just want to compare solutions.
