Yeah the idea with this was mostly for people who don't want to learn much about web development, but have the skill to change some values in JSON or edit a Markdown file.
http://perpetual.education is a design/programming school. We like to be part of the discussion over here at Dev.to / We have time-slots for free conversations for career advice IRL : )
What we're seeing - is that - that skill... doesn't doesn't help people in the long run. Getting tangled up in Node, NPM, React, Gatsby, Netlify, Command line - etc... - just creates more insecure people. It's a black box... and - you're really just giving everyone in the world but YOU the power. However, we like your site... and we bet you'll be OK.
We tutor a lot of people who went to React boot camps and can't write some basic HTML and CSS... it's scary - because... these people are going to make the things that we deal with in our life!
I completely understand the value of learning HTML and CSS before web frameworks like React, but I think you're missing my point: this isn't what I'd recommend to someone who wanted to get started with web development, it's just an alternative to paying for a site builder for those who are comfortable with text-based editing.
http://perpetual.education is a design/programming school. We like to be part of the discussion over here at Dev.to / We have time-slots for free conversations for career advice IRL : )
We get it. We just also think that you over-estimate people / and underestimate the value of what a site can do | but hopefully people will dig it! But we get it. @sheriffderek
wrote an article to "Build out Ember portfolio websites for beginners" a few years ago: codementor.io/@sheriffderek/less-t... - hahaha
Yeah the idea with this was mostly for people who don't want to learn much about web development, but have the skill to change some values in JSON or edit a Markdown file.
What we're seeing - is that - that skill... doesn't doesn't help people in the long run. Getting tangled up in Node, NPM, React, Gatsby, Netlify, Command line - etc... - just creates more insecure people. It's a black box... and - you're really just giving everyone in the world but YOU the power. However, we like your site... and we bet you'll be OK.
We tutor a lot of people who went to React boot camps and can't write some basic HTML and CSS... it's scary - because... these people are going to make the things that we deal with in our life!
dev.to/perpetual_education/enough-...
I completely understand the value of learning HTML and CSS before web frameworks like React, but I think you're missing my point: this isn't what I'd recommend to someone who wanted to get started with web development, it's just an alternative to paying for a site builder for those who are comfortable with text-based editing.
We get it. We just also think that you over-estimate people / and underestimate the value of what a site can do | but hopefully people will dig it! But we get it. @sheriffderek wrote an article to "Build out Ember portfolio websites for beginners" a few years ago: codementor.io/@sheriffderek/less-t... - hahaha
Yeah that's pretty much exactly what I was trying to go for, but much better... Oh well.