Interesting story. When all the frameworks were taking off, I was at a huge company using a 15 years legacy front-end. My background was "traditional" front-en

Interesting story. When all the frameworks were taking off, I was at a huge company using a 15 years legacy front-end. My background was "traditional" front-end. HTML/CSS/JS and mostly jQuery at the time. Every time I went in for an interview, the senior devs would always start with fundamental JS stuff and then go from there. I would consistently get comments about how I was the first person they interviewed who could actually talk to basic JS stuff like closures and scope chain. They said there was a huge influx of people learning React and Angular and had no idea the difference between the two or like you said, they were based on JS. This was back around 2014/2015 and it looks as though not much has changed since then.