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Juan F Gonzalez

This. People get so caught up on the new shiny thing that they forget the very own fundamentals of the language itself. As one guy at work once told me "Whether you're and Angular or React or Vue or whatever else, that doesn't mean sht if you really don't know Actual JavaScript. Be proud of being a JavaScript developer, not a React developer"

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Danny de Vries

A lot of frameworks (especially React) requires you to have strong fundamental knowledge of vanilla JavaScript. That doesn't mean React won't give you some core programming knowledge it's just that a lot of it will be 'magic' if you skip the basics.