Is the complexity of the task normal for a junior at work?

Question

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Good afternoon. I'm a junior front-end developer with about 6 months of commercial experience.

I was assigned to a project where there is an application in React with a self-written side-rendering server and there is a task to translate individual pages of this application into Nextjs. Leave the rest as they are and somehow "make friends" with the pages on Next. I feel that this is an impossible task for me at the moment.

Is it OK to give such tasks to juniors? Or am I some kind of narrow-minded that I can not cope with it?

Thanks in advance for your replies

Answer 1

According to the description, the task does not seem to be some kind of cosmic one, but perhaps we do not know all the nuances.
Be that as it may, before saying that you can do something or not, first check the following algorithm:
1. Make a work plan.
Very roughly:
1) Raise a new project to Next js
2) Transfer pages from the old project
...
n) Deploy a new project
2. Choose from the list what you don’t understand how to do at all and start google, ask questions on qna and, most importantly, do something in practice.
3. If you still don't understand after point 2, take all your work and go to the lead/senior developer asking for help (you're a junior, that's fine). The main thing is not to come empty-handed, but at least with some work done. If you communicate in person, take notes.
If even after the 3rd point there is no understanding of how to do the task, then it is really too difficult for you.

Answer 2

These are the realities of the market, for the most part there is no division by tasks on the galleys, probably except for deployment. June works and does the tasks that he is given and for which the client pays. Just accept that this is the case in most companies. The IT world is only perfect in articles. It’s still lucky that the stack is adjacent and they didn’t let me write, in two days in Java, believe me, and this can be

Answer 3

I don’t see the main thing: have you been given any deadlines?
If there is no deadline, then you have a great task for self-study.
If you cannot cope with it, the question is not to the one who gave it to the junior, but to you: are you going to develop at all?
Well, if the deadline is approaching, you need to discuss this problem not on the Toaster, but with your manager.

Answer 4

The key difference between junior and middle is primarily in the experience of commercial development. It’s quite possible for situations that a jun can have theoretical knowledge at some points and so on higher than a middle or even, oh gods, a signor.
Of course, I am simplifying in many ways, but for some reason many people perceive it as a junior == he doesn’t know anything, he just studies, only because many script-kiddies break through in the company and mess with their react (not understanding how everything works and why it works).
Actually not. And of course, it doesn’t mean that June should know everything and so on. But at least a general understanding of what is expected and why, as well as an initial knowledge of the subject.
But from the understandable weaknesses of a junior - the lack of a concept of commercial development, its features, the concept of a product, why we do it, and not that cool fashionable feature, etc., etc. Those here, a significant part of the weaknesses lies even in the field of so-called "soft skills", and not just direct hard skills in a specific technology (but they certainly do too!).
Well, with seniors this is even more important, there already sof skills are even more important.
Therefore, a junior comes, like he knows technology, but he doesn’t know much what and when and why, therefore they need to be given tasks more specifically, therefore it is expected that in about six months or a year he will become middle and begin to make a significant part of the decisions on his own, based on the tasks assigned to stakeholders /product and team lead. Roughly speaking, get used to the sandbox)

Answer 5

Is the complexity of the task normal for a junior at work?

Yes. Sounds simple, what's the problem anyway?

Answer 6

Dude, take it and white, something doesn’t work, you send the result to the authorities