Hey OP,<p>I'm not sure if you're aware, but this is a really tough time to try to enter the industry. We've had a few hundred thousand layoffs these last couple years, and many experienced and inexperienced devs are having trouble finding work. Personally I don't think many of those jobs are coming back, between it being a bubble to begin with and increased efficiencies from AI.<p>But if you're keen on trying to break in anyway, one route that used to work is just learning WordPress and doing freelance (like on Upwork) or local small biz stuff. It's relatively easy to go from WordPress to any other frontend job (it all boils to HTML, CSS, JS). React coding is similar enough to PHP that if shouldn't be too hard to learn. But IMHO there isn't much job security there, and by the time you get up to speed, it's probably going to be even deader than it is now already. You'll be competing for crumbs against people like me with decades of experience not making much money, and also hordes of devs from developing countries who are just as skilled and cost ten times less. We are the bottom of the barrel when it comes to developers. Easy to start, easy to replace.<p>Since you're coming from the legal sector, I wonder if compliance (or these days, AI "alignment") might not be more lucrative for you? There are companies who focus on GDPR and similar privacy compliance, for example, like OneTrust. All the terrible cookie banners you see have a lawyer or ten behind them.<p>If it's specifically coding you want to learn, don't spend too much money on a boot camp. The career prospects right now are dim to nonexistent. Just do something cheap online, like LinkedIn Learning or Codecademy or Coursera or Frontend Masters. Or take a evening or online coding class at your local community college.<p>But it feels to me that much of the industry is moving towards AI, so if you don't want to get left behind like the rest of us, maybe find coursework dedicated to that? Traditional coding is getting less and less valuable, and will probably continue to decrease in worth as the AI models get better. They're already better coders than most real-world decelopers I know, myself included.<p>That doesn't mean they're better at actually translating business requirements into apps (yet), but it does mean a few seniors with AI can do the jobs that used to require bigger teams, making it harder for juniors to join and get experience. If you had done this a few years ago you would be golden, but right now you're entering at the bottom of a cycle (or near it; I think we have a bit further to fall yet).<p>Sorry for the pessimism here! I think coding is a fun skill to have, but just don't expect it to be the road to riches it was a decade ago. If you want to learn just for its own sake, there are great cheap resources online. If you're hoping for an immediate career, I don't think that's going to be easy unless you can laterally enter the sector as a legal professional and not a coder.<p>Either way, though, best of luck to you!