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Stop Learning Frameworks First – Do This Instead

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“Learning React before JavaScript is like learning to fly a spaceship before driving a car.”

It’s one of the most common traps for new developers (and even seasoned ones switching stacks):

🚀 Jumping straight into frameworks.

  • Want to build a web app? Install React, Vue, or Angular.
  • Want a backend? Dive into Django or Laravel.
  • Want to automate tasks? Reach for a library before writing plain scripts.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

If you don’t understand the core language, the framework will own you.

In this post, we’ll cover:

✅ Why you should master the core language first
🧩 What core skills to focus on
🚀 How frameworks become 10x easier after
🛠 A roadmap that actually makes sense

🚨 Frameworks Hide the Fundamentals

A framework is basically a toolkit that abstracts away a lot of heavy lifting.

But that means:

  • It handles DOM manipulation (React, Vue)
  • It manages routing (Next.js, Nuxt, Django)
  • It handles requests and responses (Express, FastAPI)

So you never learn how it actually works under the hood.

Example: React vs JavaScript 

<button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>Click me</button>
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If you jumped straight into React:

  • You know how to increment state.
  • You know onClick triggers.

But do you know:

  • What is event bubbling?
  • What does e.preventDefault() do?
  • How does the virtual DOM diff and patch changes?

Without this, when something breaks (and it will), you’ll be stuck reading cryptic GitHub issues instead of fixing it yourself.

Example: Django vs Python 

def my_view(request):
    data = MyModel.objects.all()
    return JsonResponse({"data": list(data)})
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If you learned Django before Python:

  • You can create models and views.
  • You can return JSON.

But do you understand:

  • What is a Python list comprehension?
  • How to serialize data yourself?
  • How to debug when a TypeError happens because of data types?

🧩 What To Learn Instead

Before you build an app with a framework, master these things first:

Stack Fundamentals You Should Know
🖥 JavaScript Closures, scope, this, promises, async/await, fetch, event loop, DOM
🐍 Python List comprehensions, dict vs set, classes, decorators, context managers, file I/O, requests
🐘 PHP Arrays vs objects, sessions, form handling, basic OOP
⚙️ Bash Pipes, subshells, simple functions, environment vars, crontab

🌱 Small Wins: Build Without Frameworks

Here’s a quick roadmap:

✅ Build a todo list in plain JavaScript—no React
✅ Write a REST API using Python’s http.server module
✅ Make a CLI with argparse in Python before using Click or Typer
✅ Create static HTML+CSS+JS sites before touching Astro or Next.js

Info: Once you build these from scratch, you’ll see why frameworks exist—and then they’ll actually make sense.

🚀 How Frameworks Become 10x Easier After

When you know the fundamentals:

  • Using React means focusing on components, not fighting async or state mutation bugs.
  • Using Django means enjoying ORM shortcuts, not struggling with TypeError: ‘QuerySet’ object is not JSON serializable.
  • Using Laravel means you know PHP first, so Blade templates are just syntactic sugar.

It also means you can switch frameworks easily. Vue, Svelte, SolidJS—no problem. Because you actually know JavaScript.

🗺 The Roadmap That Works

🧭 A Simple “Framework Later” Roadmap

Stage What to Build Why
🚗 Plain Language Simple CRUD (in memory) Understand syntax, loops, functions
🏗 No-Framework Apps HTTP server or browser app Learn manual routing / DOM manipulation
🛠 Framework Same app in Django/React/etc Appreciate conventions and shortcuts
🚀 Hybrid Mix raw + framework Build microservices, API with framework, custom logic raw

🛠 Tools & Resources That Help

  • 🧰 MDN – For JavaScript, best docs ever.
  • 🐍 Python Tutor – Visualize your Python code line by line.
  • ⚙️ Postman – Play with APIs before writing frameworks.
  • 🔍 DevTools – Learn to debug JS without frameworks.
  • 🏗 0x3d Python Dev Hub – Curated Python tools, resources, and articles.

⚡ TL;DR

  • 🚫 Don’t start with frameworks. Start with the language.
  • 🧠 Build ugly things with raw code first.
  • 🚀 Then adopt frameworks to speed things up.

“A framework should be your power-up, not your life support.”

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💬 What do you wish you learned before React, Django, or Laravel?
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