[OJFord]

> HTML and Flash development. Not only could you learn to make websites quickly, but you were learning technology that was exactly what you would be using when working at a company.

> learn React

IMO that's not the same. Just change Flash for JS, it's still exactly the same technology you would be using when working at a company.

Sure, there's a whole load of ~crap~ tooling built on top of JS to learn too, but I'm sure there was for Flash. It's still the same at its core.