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You are absolutely right, but I do believe people should start learning the alphabet before trying to read a book. React looks fine to me and at my daily job o

You are absolutely right, but I do believe people should start learning the alphabet before trying to read a book. React looks fine to me and at my daily job our frontend devs do some amazing job. I just wanted to learn and all I seem to find is how to learn javascript through React, and not React through Javascript. I do agree this is a home made solution and would not work nicely with lots of devs involved. I'm talking about learning though, and we devs are usually bad teachers when we don't know how to boil it down to the essentials. How many people do you know that only use React to draw boxes and not for the advantages it brings?

wanda 11y ago
React is JavaScript. jQuery, sure, that's probably harmful in the long run, but you have to know JavaScript to use React. /Structuring/ an app is a different skill that takes lots of consideration, especially in a language as flexible as JavaScript.
yazaddaruvala 11y ago
I'd argue that you're analogy is broken. Yes, frameworks are built from the basics and novels are built from an alphabet. However, Frameworks reduce relative complexity, increasing their audience. Novels actually have an increased relative complexity reducing their audience. While, its hard to find good analogies outside software development, it might be more correct to say: if javascript is the alphabet, then React is a picture book. Picture books lowering the relative complexity, allow literate and illiterate people alike to mostly understand a story. Here its easier to see that the Framework (pictures) help novices (the illiterate, i.e. children), as soon as possible, to become independent and productive (understand the story). There is also the added benefit that exposure to both words and pictures simultaneously allows for an understanding of the alphabet and grammar, i.e. helps the learning process.

wanda 11y ago

React is JavaScript. jQuery, sure, that's probably harmful in the long run, but you have to know JavaScript to use React. /Structuring/ an app is a different skill that takes lots of consideration, especially in a language as flexible as JavaScript.

yazaddaruvala 11y ago

I'd argue that you're analogy is broken. Yes, frameworks are built from the basics and novels are built from an alphabet. However, Frameworks reduce relative complexity, increasing their audience. Novels actually have an increased relative complexity reducing their audience. While, its hard to find good analogies outside software development, it might be more correct to say: if javascript is the alphabet, then React is a picture book. Picture books lowering the relative complexity, allow literate and illiterate people alike to mostly understand a story. Here its easier to see that the Framework (pictures) help novices (the illiterate, i.e. children), as soon as possible, to become independent and productive (understand the story). There is also the added benefit that exposure to both words and pictures simultaneously allows for an understanding of the alphabet and grammar, i.e. helps the learning process.