That is fantastic news, and I wish you all the best on your new journey.
I don't think you can ignore Node.js, since a lot of the tooling that is available today to support Solidity development runs on Node.js.
You certainly don't need to be a Node.js expert in order to use these tools. Most of them have great documentation and there is a lot of support available online for you to look at.
The order in which you learn them is totally up to you, there's no dependency for you to learn one over the other first. However, if you are going to use some of tooling like, Truffle.js or Hardhat.js you'll probably need to know some basic Node.js.
Hello Mike.
I am currently working with React.js and plan to advance into nodejs by by 2022.
Now, I have picked deep interest in web3 and blockchain development.
Can I ignore nodejs and dive into solidity straight? What do you think?
Thanks for your reply
Hey @Nkematu,
That is fantastic news, and I wish you all the best on your new journey.
I don't think you can ignore Node.js, since a lot of the tooling that is available today to support Solidity development runs on Node.js.
You certainly don't need to be a Node.js expert in order to use these tools. Most of them have great documentation and there is a lot of support available online for you to look at.
The order in which you learn them is totally up to you, there's no dependency for you to learn one over the other first. However, if you are going to use some of tooling like, Truffle.js or Hardhat.js you'll probably need to know some basic Node.js.
Hope this helps!
Great. Thanks for your response. Really appreciate