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Discussion on: As a beginner to JavaScript, which stack should I learn first MEAN/MERN ?

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Nawaz Warsi

Okay @jonrandy ! But it would be more helpful if you could give some reasons for the same. Hope you don't mind. :D

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Davide Vernizzi

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.