It is a tricky balance to be sure. Building familiarity with html, css and javascript first is necessary, and I do link out to tutorials that teach that on the

It is a tricky balance to be sure. Building familiarity with html, css and javascript first is necessary, and I do link out to tutorials that teach that on the welcome page. But beyond the basic knowledge, how do you learn good practices quickest? Do you start trying things and learn what works and what doesn’t through experience? Or do you follow the learning track of popular frameworks and learn good practices through example and osmosis? On balance I think it’s better to learn how to build with frameworks first to learn all the right concepts in the guiding structure that they provide, and only then to walk away from frameworks and have complete freedom by going vanilla. That’s why that paragraph is there. YMMV.