[ehnto]

It is weird that you consider frontend frameworks programming but CMS frameworks might not be. You could fudge your way through a React tutorial just as much as someone could a Magento tutorial. It's the person not the tools that make you a programmer.

Magento is a fairly complex platform too. It uses lots of very formal software engineering paradigms joined together in a well thought out framework. I would consider it a bit more traditional programming than Vue or React, and if I had a general programming role to fill I would sooner hire a Magento only backend dev than a React only dev. React/Vue are very specialized frontend tools and working with themm doesn't translate all that well to general programming.

[rossdavidh]

I might agree on the reality, but the market rate of pay for React programmers is considerably higher than that for Magento, whether this is fair or well advised or not.

[ehnto]

I can't argue there. Career wise, React is a good choice. It is a really cool piece of technology too. I have been very resistant to the new hat frontend frameworks, mostly because I had a strong methodology for frontend UI already and there was no sense throwing it away. But even I put React in my toolbelt recently.

[tracker1]

React was the first front end framework that felt "right" to me. Of course, I was a fan of templating with E4X (which never gained support outside Adobe and Mozilla).