A good framework hides all of this, and gradually reveals how it works to the user/coder. I think Next.js does this very well, although I'll admit that their "

A good framework hides all of this, and gradually reveals how it works to the user/coder. I think Next.js does this very well, although I'll admit that their "getting started for total beginners" documentation spends way too much time explaining the magic. If I were to throw someone into the deep end to make their own mistakes, as I assume we all did with PHP, I would tell them to git clone https://github.com/vercel/next-learn/tree/master/basics/learn-starter https://github.com/vercel/next-learn/tree/master/basics/lear..., and then experiment with "pages/index.js". Hot reloading that you get out-of-the-box with most JS frameworks is a massive improvement over static HTML, or PHP.