Only recently we've started reaching out to our power users to get feedback on newer redesigns and functionality. I believe we reach out to them over Intercom & email.
I've found it difficult to hire full-stack developers with at least a year of react experience. Interviewees usually only know enough to be dangerous, or have experience with Node/JavaScript and express interest in growing on the frontend
Hiring those same people has gone really well, similarly becoming comfortable after a few weeks of working with react
The problem I think is more that you're looking for full stack. Try a front end developer. These have deeper Javascript, html, css and web/browser specific knowledge then a lot of so called full stack people have. The former are the fundamental skills you're looking for. React itself I would consider less important as long as they have experience in one framework or another, or unless you have very simple needs and no time for a even a short ramping up period.
If you follow this advice, you will tap into a HUGE resource of developers who have ridden the tide of front end for a long time but haven't crossed over into full stack because it was never expected until recent times. Of course it would be ideal to find one person who can do it all. But from my experience it is orders of magnitude harder to find a good traditional software engineer who can also rock the front end. Depending on your process and desire for good UI/UX this will especially hold true...
Still not sure how to get there, but in the last 2 years I've had the opportunity to be involved in the building and planning around a product and I know that's what I want to keep doing.
If you don't mind me asking: What kind of doctor did you see? What do you say when you want to make an appointment?
Lately I've been wanting to talk to a doctor, but I get very hung up on who I need to see and how to kick off the conversation about how I've been feeling.
I just went to see a general family doctor originally. I made the appointment by saying that I hadn't been in for a checkup in a while and wanted to establish a relationship with a general practitioner (for me it felt even more difficult to talk about being depressed with a random secretary). Then when I went in for the appointment I told the doctor I was there because I'd been depressed for a while and it had gotten bad enough that I wanted to see about treatment options. She was kind and professional from there, recommending me to a therapist in the practice and getting me set up with an appointment. It seems like a huge mountain from this side of things but at least from my doctor's reaction, this is hardly a rare occurrence and they know how to help you without making you feel like a burden or a crazy person or something (which is what I feared before I went in).
