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[00:00] These three skills are far more important for software development careers than understanding React, Vue, Angular, or any other framework out there. Here's the thing, frameworks change all the time.

[00:15] And if you're framework dependent in your career or in your studies, then you have to reset your entire career almost when the new framework comes out, right? So I've seen this happen over and over again.

[00:28] in the three decades I've been a software developer. The developers who transition through the trends are the ones who understand the three fundamental skills, which we're going to discuss in this video, that makes all the difference. And really, it separates the pro

[00:44] developers and the valuable developers from the ones that, yeah, not so valuable. So what are the three skills? Very clearly, being able to work and think about API development, understanding how to

[00:57] control state, some people call it control state flow, and business logic discipline, how to extract business logic rules for your applications and how to integrate them within

[01:11] the system. These are the three fundamental skills that pro developers have, and they transcend all languages, all technologies, very important. So the good news, when you are well-versed in these

[01:24] three fundamentals, you don't have to chase trends. You don't care if React gets replaced by Vue or Vue by Angular or if AI comes into the equation. Because ultimately, advanced software

[01:42] developers have these three skill sets and understand how to work with them within the context of software development. Very important. So, something I've been talking about for a while.

[01:58] Let me just get into some of the specifics here, and we'll take it from there. So, the first one, clean API thinking That just means you clear about how different parts of the system talk to each other what goes in what comes out how they communicate with each other

[02:14] When the API implementations are clear and the systems are well-structured, that allows you to maintain and build software without breaking it. Yes, not breaking software is key to being a pro developer.

[02:27] The best developers produce software that has a very clean and well-structured code base that is not brittle, meaning it's easy to extend and update, to debug.

[02:42] If you have messy spaghetti code, then you're going to have problems. That's a junior. So when I hire developers, when I've been hiring developers, one of the things I look at, I say, send me what you have, send me what you've done.

[02:54] I look at the code base and I make sure it's very clean and simple and easy to understand. Your code should be self-describing, should be easy to understand at a glance. Why? Because if your code is too cute and too complex, then it's going to be a nightmare to maintain.

[03:13] Maintainable code is key. That's one of the problems with AI development. When people utilize AI written code improperly, especially the vibe coding stuff,

[03:25] the major problem is that code is a bloody mess and it's really hard to update. And any successful piece of software, just about everyone anyway, they need to be updated.

[03:38] So it's a total disaster. I've had to rewrite entire code bases from scratch because of core components of the software were poorly implemented. My fault.

[03:50] And so we couldn't, at some point, the software became too brittle to maintain. The second principle is controlled state flow. That means data doesn't just change randomly all over your app.

[04:05] You know where state lives, how it's allowed to change, and what should happen when it does. when something breaks you know where to look instead of guessing Again this comes down to managing data flows and having clean architecture State management is a huge part of modern web app development especially

[04:25] So you have to really have a good control over that. If you're a beginner and maybe you've just done my beginner's PHP course or something, it's all the session stuff. Sessions is a part of it anyway.

[04:37] The third is the business logic discipline. That's understanding where the actual rules of the product live, pricing rules, permissions, edge cases, etc. And keeping those rules separate from the UI.

[04:49] Because the UI will change often enough in an application, I can attest to that for sure. But the rules usually don't. So, there's a basic principle of software development derived from small talk called MVC.

[05:05] It is one of the key design patterns in modern software development. Everybody uses it nowadays. So model, view, controller, MVC, the model, the view, the controller,

[05:17] these are ways of segmenting your application into different broad components. And one aspect of MVC is that your view code, that's the V in model, view, controller, MVC,

[05:30] The view code, all the UI code, does not interact directly with the business logic code. So, yeah, very important principle.

[05:43] And you have to understand how business logic should be implemented within a system. Because business logic typically doesn't change very often. There may be some little tweaks here and there, but typically it doesn't change. But the views, where you organize things, that can change much more often.

[05:58] These three things, they show up in every system, whether you're using React, Angular, Vue, or something that doesn't exist yet, or an AI-based system. They're not framework problems, largely.

[06:12] They're system problems that you're solving. So even in the AI age with Vibe coding, all this stuff, this is not a threat to developers. I actually think it's a big opportunity. These principles are becoming even more important So frameworks are tools you use to build things as is AI systems But these foundational principles and techniques

[06:33] are what you're going to build your career upon because that's what teams will depend on when they're maintaining and building out applications or depending on well-architected code

[06:47] that respects these three principles, these three techniques, which we just outlined in this video. there you go some pretty advanced nerd stuff by the way i know somebody's gonna say steph bro world of tutorials bro i have hundreds of tutorial videos that are not just videos they're interactive

[07:06] there's code challenges there's theoretical challenges instant grading instant and automatic tracking even in certifications are in there as well so yeah i do have plenty of tutorials that's

[07:20] why if you want them you can check them out links below blah blah blah and there's a some older ones here you get a sample of what it is i concentrate on the key fundamentals the universal fundamentals i teach uh three programming languages six coding languages and uh if you want to learn to code

[07:40] there's no faster way hey i'm uncle steph i teach people how to be pro software developers if you think that learning from somebody who's been in the game for 30 years, three decades, taking several products to market, yeah, check out my unique mentoring program, which has been updated

[07:58] for the AI age. By the way, if you're worried about software development jobs in the AI age, they are not going away. What's happening is old school software development is going away.

[08:12] But if you get into the new stuff, the new stuff, I think, is the best opportunity since the 1990s.