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by jpangs88 2507 days ago
I have always found the big 3 JavaScript frameworks to be three versions of the same thing with slight differences. As someone who as worked in frontend for a while I am vexed in why people think the skills from one framework don't translate to the others.

I remember talking to someone about working on a project and they asked me if I had worked in Angular and I said no but I have worked in Vue and React to which I got a reply of "you should really learn angular."

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Speaking as an old fart, it's not about getting one framework but not the other, it's about the concept of the framework.

For me, coming from a heavy Ruby on Rails background, I learned to just "trust the magic" with Angular (which is what I've used). Change the variable here, trust it will update in the component on the screen. Don't ask why.

The other part about frameworks that was hard for a bit was, "But what part runs on the server?" - as in, that idea that the code on the browser is generated by something on a server, and whatever that server part is actually talks to the API.