> Imagine a newbie that never developed a normal website and now thinks React/client-side rendering is how the web is supposed to work. I had the luck of learn

> Imagine a newbie that never developed a normal website and now thinks React/client-side rendering is how the web is supposed to work. I had the luck of learning the web "the old way" at the university. First HTML, then CSS, then PHP where we cobbled together a small website (our end projet was a recipe website where you could create an account and post recipes, so there was database usage too). All of this was made in WAMP/XAMP. We had a course on JavaScript the next year but I honestly didn't understand anything. Some time after though, when I started working again on the web, having an understanding of HTML, CSS and what you had to do by yourself made me understand fundamental web technologies on a deeper level than most of my peers that started with the MERN/MEAN/MEVN stack. I'm sure they'll be more attractive to employers though.