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by gkilmain 1853 days ago
I've essentially made my career with CSS. I've been hired solely because of my CSS skills. I am continually surprised when I interview engineers proficient in Angular / React / JS but they cannot even do a basic full page layout (think header, footer, and two adjacent content areas in the middle ). Anyone starting from scratch to try to get a career in web dev become great at CSS - its a niche no one seems to want to learn
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Ditto; my first career break into the web app development world came from a friend who is a really talented developer although he had never heard of flexbox. I quickly helped him fix a frustrating layout issue and he got me a job developing a React app for the government. I didn't know React at the time although I've learned a ton since. All because I spent years messing around with CSS.
Hey! Glad to meet another member of our club :)

I unironically love CSS and I once got a contract gig doing nothing but CSS for a PWA, because their front-end dev didn't want to or couldn't (can't remember) do it