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Discussion on: Programming Myths vs Facts

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Jon Randy 🎖️

For frontend development, JavaScript is useless without HTML, CSS, and some frontend framework like Angular, Vue or React

Myth: For frontend development, JavaScript is useless without some frontend framework like Angular, Vue or React

Fact: Plain JS is very powerful, and often the best tool in a lot of situations

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Marinsborg.com

True, but companies like modern and popular frameworks for whatever reason

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QAvsDEV

Totally agree - my favorite "framework" is Vanilla.js - i.e. no framework at all.

However, getting a job without knowing any of the 3 frameworks mentioned is next to impossible.

Sure, you could go without them on the backend doing Node, but even then you'll be expected to know something like Express, and how to work with databases and APIs.

The main point of this myth was that it's better to learn more technologies (like frameworks, databases, HTTP etc.) than more languages, especially if you're new and want to get a job in tech.

Thanks for your input!