While I agree that stating opinions as obvious best practices is problematic at any level, I do appreciate a lot that this guide seems (I only skimmed it) to ke

While I agree that stating opinions as obvious best practices is problematic at any level, I do appreciate a lot that this guide seems (I only skimmed it) to keep things basic and to the essentials. From a lot of resources floating around and talking to people interested in getting into web development, I feel that the entry-level tooling and techniques you supposedly need to know has gotten like 10x more complex compared to 10 years ago, whereas I'm not convinced that the majority of people is solving significantly harder problems. Don't get me wrong, most of the modern tooling and techniques are immensely helpful for aspects that were a massive pain in the past, but they can also create a at least perceived unnecessarily high barrier of entry into the field. E.g. I had absolute beginners asking me questions about problems with their docker setup, errors in their build chain or their confusions with things like redux, etc.