[ActionHank]

I think your ignorance is showing.

There is far more to it than all that.

I've interviewed far too many nextjs experts who couldn't do anything else. That's not a skill, that's just knowledge, which at this point is freely available.

[kalcode]

That being entirely unfair. It is still a skill. They still learning stuff. It does not help them to be trapped in a bubble. But nothing is not transferrable. Things we learn, even if they are only a React can't write vanilla JS, it's still unfair to say they have no skill.

Just not a correct interpretation. Many skills start that way and even some people make a whole career mastering one thing and one thing only.

Not saying being trapped in React land unable to break out is good. But being able to create something, even if it's just with Nextjs is still a good thing.

We should hate on the businesses that force us to take shortcuts, value quantity over quality. They wanted boot camps with code monkeys.

[jeremyjh]

Right, they have no knowledge and yet they can get shit done that is good enough for many use cases. That is precisely the point.

[wiseowise]

All while working for peanuts. Win for everyone, except workers.

[8note]

im not clear what makes that not a skill?

other people cant do anything with nextjs, or anything with any front end at all.

its applied knowledge, understanding how nextjs works, and using it to build some application

[shimman]

Libraries come and go, but understanding the web means mostly html, js (in the form of web APIs), and css.

I've also been using react professionally since 2015 and I've yet to see a nextjs application in the wild. It seems to mostly confined to the startup sphere.