> So while you do need to learn a few React specific APIs, most of your code is just JavaScript. That's transferrable knowledge! Well that gets a big LOL from

> So while you do need to learn a few React specific APIs, most of your code is just JavaScript. That's transferrable knowledge! Well that gets a big LOL from me. React goes out of its way to eliminate any awareness or interaction with real DOM APIs, and tends to abstract away all kinds of things that are actually straightforward using native JS APIs. Heck, we're only _just now_ perhaps-maybe-hopefully getting true support for web components and they've been around for years. If you want to use a reactive view library that actually helps you learn about vanilla APIs, try Lit. Or drop down a level and check out Stimulus.