To me, one of the most important things to learn in web development is to learn about the HTTP protocol. This may sound boring and tedious, but if you don't kn

To me, one of the most important things to learn in web development is to learn about the HTTP protocol. This may sound boring and tedious, but if you don't know how GET, POST, PUT, DELETE etc. work then it won't do you any good trying to wrap your head around frameworks. Learn some of the common responses and what they mean and are typically used for (200 is ok, 302 is a redirect, etc). REST-style frameworks are just abstractions on this protocol, and a good understanding of it will help to make sense of why web dev frameworks are built the way they are.