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perpetual . education

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!

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Max Niederman

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.

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perpetual . education

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

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Max Niederman

Yeah that's pretty much exactly what I was trying to go for, but much better... Oh well.