Full-stack engineer with 15 years of experience in web applications, computer security, and enterprise systems. Earlier, I obtained a PhD. and worked as a postdoc.
I disagree with the suggestion. React is very opinionated. I mean very very. And learning React will not teach you JavaScript in any way. And it requires its own tool chain. A lot of tools, and conventions. And it implies a lot of dependencies. I mean, a large lot. And it evolves rapidly.
However, it is the standard de facto and learning plain JavaScript will not teach any of the things that React requires. So I second the other suggestions, learn some plan JavaScript, and then move to MERN. And once you moved, keep your vanilla muscles warm by doing some katas every now and then.
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Okay @jonrandy ! But it would be more helpful if you could give some reasons for the same. Hope you don't mind. :D
I disagree with the suggestion. React is very opinionated. I mean very very. And learning React will not teach you JavaScript in any way. And it requires its own tool chain. A lot of tools, and conventions. And it implies a lot of dependencies. I mean, a large lot. And it evolves rapidly.
However, it is the standard de facto and learning plain JavaScript will not teach any of the things that React requires. So I second the other suggestions, learn some plan JavaScript, and then move to MERN. And once you moved, keep your vanilla muscles warm by doing some katas every now and then.