I agree with the idea... There are a lot of new developers that go through boot camps or learn on their own and pass quickly over the basic technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) so that they can go straight to frameworks: Bootstrap, jQuery, React, Angular, etc. And that's a valid approach as long as they plan for getting the basics covered along the way.
On the other hand, I think people like you and I had the "unfair" advantage of seeing front-end development evolve into the current state. We grew as developers together with the Web itself. We didn't have to play catch-up as much as new people do today.
Felt the same with catching up when trying out React with JS knowledge but not much ES6:
Oh it uses classes like OOP languages, neat. Let me learn how objects are instantiated in ES6 and the this... Oh it has functional components too, check. So time for arrow functions and no this... Now hooks are in the mix too so object destructuring... I want to know React but ES6 has somewhat deepened the learning curve (for me).
Yet not all code examples on the web use the same convention or are the most updated. And the build tools are more things to get a hold of. I had to switch mindsets here and there, looking up stuff again and again. It's not so easy to focus and get the gist of React.
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I agree with the idea... There are a lot of new developers that go through boot camps or learn on their own and pass quickly over the basic technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) so that they can go straight to frameworks: Bootstrap, jQuery, React, Angular, etc. And that's a valid approach as long as they plan for getting the basics covered along the way.
On the other hand, I think people like you and I had the "unfair" advantage of seeing front-end development evolve into the current state. We grew as developers together with the Web itself. We didn't have to play catch-up as much as new people do today.
Felt the same with catching up when trying out React with JS knowledge but not much ES6:
Oh it uses classes like OOP languages, neat. Let me learn how objects are instantiated in ES6 and the
this... Oh it has functional components too, check. So time for arrow functions and nothis... Now hooks are in the mix too so object destructuring... I want to know React but ES6 has somewhat deepened the learning curve (for me).Yet not all code examples on the web use the same convention or are the most updated. And the build tools are more things to get a hold of. I had to switch mindsets here and there, looking up stuff again and again. It's not so easy to focus and get the gist of React.