[_heimdall]

If you're a react developer that started in the industry in the last 4 or 5 years, I'm sorry. The web industry did a real disservice to newcomers by pushing people so heavily into learning react from day 1, potentially without ever learning HTML, CSS, or browser APIs.

Do yourself a favor and learn the platform if you jumped right into react. When react inevitably loses favor and the jobs dry up, you'll have a much easier time when you know the underlying platform and better understand why react does what it does.

Don't take the above as some claim that react is already dying, it could still have plenty of time left. It's just inevitable that it will eventually die and web development jobs will move on to something else.

[Jcampuzano2]

I agree with this take. I learned web dev before React was a thing, mostly using jQuery at the time. Then as jQuery was falling out of favor I spent a lot of time learning the native browser API's and honing my fundamental JS skills as I focused more time on JS development.

I see a HUGE difference in fundamental understanding of sometimes even the most basic web dev fundamentals between people who learnt just starting with React from the get-go and people who did not. Its sad that people jump to using React from the start just to get a job at the cost of never learning these basic skills that used to be basically required knowledge for web development, and many never go on to get a deeper understanding.