I wasn't trying to dissuade him from continuing to learn vanilla JavaScript. Fluency in the fundamentals (HTML and CSS, too) is key to being a good developer and will allow one to switch between frameworks and libraries as they inevitably go in and out of style.
>but i definitely think learning the underlying JS that powers >frameworks like React, Vue, etc first will make you a better >developer when using those tools. at least for me, I found >learning React less challenging since I understood most of the >javascript that was underlying it....or if I didn't know the >underlying JS I could piece together the jist of it since I >knew the basics. > >
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