Originally published on my blog MullinStack
No Winners in the Crazy Frameworks Race
In the last five years, I have been crazily chasing...
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I don't do Javascript, but I can testify that this is excellent all the same!
You've described my entire philosophy of programming. Because I've spent so much time mastering the underlying concepts of software development, I can pick up any language quite quickly. Similarly, when I spend any meaningful time in a language, I try to master the entirety of its core before I worry about grokking various libraries, GUI frameworks, or what have you.
Abstractions should make your life easier, as long as you don't focus on the abstractions. Learn the underlying concepts, and you'll be able to pick up any abstraction at will.
this should be the name of a book: the underlying concepts of software development
It very nearly is. I came across this new release from No Starch Press the other day. Looks promising...
How Software Works by V. Anton Spraul
Great. I will take a look at. Thanks for sharing!
Completely agree. Jason, thanks for reading.
I find understanding the language first leads to the frameworks making so much more sense when used. Rather than knowing that A does B, you understand how A results in B; which can be incredibly useful.
Yes sure, Actually, we do the opposite for different reasons. Thanks for reading!
Thank you Roberto! I agree with you completely. I think many of us are experiencing "framework fatigue." Many frameworks started out as just someone's way to save time. It's their own abstraction, but they knew the pure underlying language first - A Framework Author's Case Against Frameworks
Learning the fundamentals allows you to learn other languages more efficiently. At the end of the day, a function is a function, a variable is a variable, etc. Excellent article!
Awesome article. I was in the same race until recently. First I did angular (1 😅), then react, then recently vue- after flirting with Svelte. In the end, if I can't ship any code with these frameworks, what have I accomplished? Nothing.
I absolutely agree. If you learn core JS, you can pick up hyped-framework-X in short amount of time, saving you time in the future!
Appreciate the book list btw.
I can't agree enough on this. Countless times, it is thought and assumed that the problem is arising because of a framework issue. But the real problem is the basic JavaScript concept which has absolutely nothing to do with framework. Thanks for writing this article!
And sometimes it is really a framework issue, but we can't figure out because we don't know the basics.
I've been developing for a few years now & still struggle to grasp JavaScript. Every developer starting out must grasp JS and make sure you are strong in that before diving into the many JS frameworks. I will get there, in the end, I'm stubborn as hell & won't rest till I conquer JS. 😂
I highly recommend this video tutorial for beginners: udemy.com/course/modern-javascript...
Thank you, Thank you. In addition
leonardomso / 33-js-concepts
📜 33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know.
33 Concepts Every JavaScript Developer Should Know
Introduction
This repository was created with the intention of helping developers master their concepts in JavaScript. It is not a requirement, but a guide for future studies. It is based on an article written by Stephen Curtis and you can read it here.
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Great article, Roberto, thank you! I would say that it's perfectly valid for any given language.
The book list you provided (I especially like the second one) has broken links BTW.
Like all other languages which have a ton of available frameworks, learn the fundamentals.
Right data structure is one of the important things before trying to write javascript code. I love javascript l
Yes, of course, it is too. Thanks for reading!
Learn language-agnostic principles: algorithms, design patterns, clean code and refactoring.
JavaScript is as good a place as any to do that.
Programming JavaScript Applications link is not working.
It´s working. Check it again.