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Discussion on: Has front-end development changed? What is a front-end developer suppose to know?

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Ben Halpern

I don't think you need to learn React but you should probably learn about React or Angular. Just so you know where people are coming from. I don't think the learning curve is really all that steep as long as you're not tasked with fully owning a complicated app from end to end. Then it's complicated.

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Sebastian Nitu • Edited

Yeah, that makes sense. I've just kind of stopped telling people I'm a front-end dev cause the question that follows is almost always "do you use React or Vue, etc". There is this sort of inadequacy that sets in if you say, "oh, just HTML and CSS" or whatever. Eh.