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> Wouldn't reading a book about React before they started working with it be preferrable? Great in theory but difficult in practice. Developers rarely ever h
by sah2ed 10y ago
> Wouldn't reading a book about React before they started working with it be preferrable?
Great in theory but difficult in practice.
Developers rarely ever have the luxury to pick up a book as a means of getting up to speed when there exists online resources like Google and StackOverflow where you can easily find posts that answer your query string(s) verbatim.
- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoBut you don't necessarily know what you don't know. If you don't know enough to ask high quality questions, SO and Google won't help you. If you're lucky, G will lead you to tuts and repos with useful code. If you're not, you'll make a ton of stupid beginner mistake and be overdrawn on the technical debt account before you even start.
- sah2ed 10y agoJavaScript frameworks are rarely ever worth buying a book to get up to speed for. Books like this [0] are a much better time investment as the deep knowledge gained would be useful beyond the currently trending JS framework. [0] https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS