That's exactly what I was going to say. There are a lot of good points in the article. But I feel that the discussion always gets framed as an either/or question when the answer should really be both/and. You can learn all the basics before you start learning a library/framework, but if you stop learning vanilla JS altogether to switch over, you'll stop progressing as a JavaScript developer.
The real crippling thing is to stop learning vanilla when you start learning a framework. But I see no problem in learning one alongside the other. And I frankly think that you can add a framework/library to your learning fairly soon.
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That's exactly what I was going to say. There are a lot of good points in the article. But I feel that the discussion always gets framed as an either/or question when the answer should really be both/and. You can learn all the basics before you start learning a library/framework, but if you stop learning vanilla JS altogether to switch over, you'll stop progressing as a JavaScript developer.
The real crippling thing is to stop learning vanilla when you start learning a framework. But I see no problem in learning one alongside the other. And I frankly think that you can add a framework/library to your learning fairly soon.