This. Thankfully, the only thing 'foundational' about the web is the pure languages that it is built upon, and not its frameworks. The reason I had a 'web-deve

This. Thankfully, the only thing 'foundational' about the web is the pure languages that it is built upon, and not its frameworks. The reason I had a 'web-development epiphany' is that I moved away from for months fleetingly trying to hack jQuery into my web projects, and then suddenly grokked React within days. If you come from a programming background (and especially a functional one at that), learning ES6 javascript with a more modern framework (React, Angular, Vue) is the way to go.