The Day I Stopped Learning Frameworks (and Started Learning Engineering)

The More I Learn, the Less I Google Frameworks

A few years ago, every new framework felt overwhelming.

React.
Vue.
Svelte.
Next.js.
Nuxt.
Remix...

It never seemed to end.

Then I realized something.

The framework wasn't the hard part.

The hard part was understanding the ideas behind it.

Routing.
State management.
Rendering.
HTTP.
Caching.
Databases.
Concurrency.

Once those concepts clicked, learning a new framework became surprisingly fast.

Frameworks are different.

The problems they solve usually aren't.

That's why I spend less time asking:

"Which framework should I learn next?"

And more time asking:

"What problem is this framework trying to solve?"

That question has saved me hundreds of hours.

Has there been one programming concept that suddenly made everything else easier?