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by ehnto
2177 days ago
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React is a particularly bad way to learn pragmatic Javascript because it's idioms are quite different from how people program in any other scenario but UI dev. It's a UI library and you won't learn much about Javascript programming from it. You will just know React. You should absolutely learn React if you want to be employed writing with JS, but people should understand where React lies in the context of javascript. It isn't an abstraction of JS, it's a UI library written in JS. |
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I know that this probably isn't how you meant it, but I think what you said is a bit misleading to someone who wants to learn JS for a job.
Having skills in React are an almost guaranteed way to get a job writing JS. It's definitely not the only viable way to get employed writing JS. Contrary to popular belief, there are many jobs out there asking for Node.js skills but not necessarily React or any heavy frontend knowledge. You can also make a living doing Vue or Angular, and Svelte is an up and coming framework that will be good to learn and I believe will create lots of jobs. I've been writing mostly Ember.js code for years now, yet I'm employed.
I just want to make sure that learners don't think that it's all React or nothing. Nothing against React, by any means. If someone learns React but it doesn't interest them, their career in JS isn't over.