Your mileage may vary, but PHP is on its way out and no matter how it "improved", its reputation really hasn't. People starting new projects means nothing if there's no traction for jobs.
To quote the OP: "I have extensive front end experience with Javascript as well." "No one is really looking for a PHP developer right now. And all the front end jobs want React/Redux experience or Angular." So, not…
I think this is bad advice, many if not most of the frontend jobs right now ask for React, which means that a lot of future legacy code also will be React code. More importantly, it shows you're ready to adapt to "new"…
Your mileage may vary, but PHP is on its way out and no matter how it "improved", its reputation really hasn't. People starting new projects means nothing if there's no traction for jobs.
To quote the OP: "I have extensive front end experience with Javascript as well." "No one is really looking for a PHP developer right now. And all the front end jobs want React/Redux experience or Angular." So, not…
I think this is bad advice, many if not most of the frontend jobs right now ask for React, which means that a lot of future legacy code also will be React code. More importantly, it shows you're ready to adapt to "new"…