Lead Developer, business owner, US Army veteran. I build things for the web. My website is a bunch of HTML pages that didn't need a framework. Yours can be too!
You will never read it all. It will keep coming. In addition the front end world is so vast, you will never learn it all. Pick one thing (after careful consideration) and learn/read/apply that.
If that one thing falls out of style, or doesn't apply to your current project, congratulations! You can pick a new one thing!
Years of doing this took me through JavaScript, HTML and CSS, on to jQuery, a daliance with SharePoint that lead me to Angular 1, then v2 and now Stenciljs and web components. Sure I've POC'd React and Vue, and there's a million helper libraries I've learned and forgotten along the way, but I always knew what that one thing that I was an expert in at the time was, and that helped me focus.
Don't put blinders on and start hammering screws because the hammer's your one and ONLY thing... But with a solid base in the vanilla technologies I'm sure your one thing will serve you well for a couple of years... And then you get to know a new one thing!
There's always time to learn, just point in one direction at a time :D
It’s crazy the amount of libraries out there for javascript and sometimes I often thinking “what’s wrong with just vanilla javascript?” Then realised I could be opening the flood doors!
“Solid base in vanilla technologies” << I must remember to remind myself this. Thank you!
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You will never read it all. It will keep coming. In addition the front end world is so vast, you will never learn it all. Pick one thing (after careful consideration) and learn/read/apply that.
If that one thing falls out of style, or doesn't apply to your current project, congratulations! You can pick a new one thing!
Years of doing this took me through JavaScript, HTML and CSS, on to jQuery, a daliance with SharePoint that lead me to Angular 1, then v2 and now Stenciljs and web components. Sure I've POC'd React and Vue, and there's a million helper libraries I've learned and forgotten along the way, but I always knew what that one thing that I was an expert in at the time was, and that helped me focus.
Don't put blinders on and start hammering screws because the hammer's your one and ONLY thing... But with a solid base in the vanilla technologies I'm sure your one thing will serve you well for a couple of years... And then you get to know a new one thing!
There's always time to learn, just point in one direction at a time :D
It’s crazy the amount of libraries out there for javascript and sometimes I often thinking “what’s wrong with just vanilla javascript?” Then realised I could be opening the flood doors!
“Solid base in vanilla technologies” << I must remember to remind myself this. Thank you!