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Discussion on: Is "fundamentals first" the best approach to learning web development?

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Andrei Dascalu

One point about this. You can approach learning however you want. You can learn React first, it's the pragmatic way to the first job and it's a useful skill at the end of the day. But you're not deferring the confusion in the learning process. If you learn React to apply it, once you have your job it's a different part of the process, where learning is done on the job and any confusion about the basics will reflect on your productivity. What will you say to your team? I'm a beginner that know react but no idea how vanilla js works in the browser? Maybe you jumped to typescript and you're writing stuff without having any idea how it impacts the Babel output (or parcel or whatever)?
Well, in all interviews I've been to and all I've ever held, you wouldn't get to React questions without passing fundamentals.
Then again, maybe you mean purely learning, in which case I would say React makes more sense after going through some basics.