I really like this article discussed here recently, which breaks down the new front-end work into front-of-front-end and back-of-front-end: https://news.ycombin

I really like this article discussed here recently, which breaks down the new front-end work into front-of-front-end and back-of-front-end: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26160538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26160538 knowing html is a somewhat nebulous claim, there are so many elements, attributes, and relationships, and the specification is incredibly dense. A design-focused front-end developer may almost exclusively use parts of HTML that a 'back-of-front-end' developer might not even know exist. I do think you could do back-of-front-end very competently and have only a vague understanding of HTML. However, you'd likely also be interacting strictly with a subset of React.