Guide to JavaScript Frameworks
I come from a pure HTML + CSS + JS (mostly via jQuery) background. My career has headed in a direction that focusses a lot less in the frontend web, but every 2 months or so I read one of these guides and I get giddy - &quot;Finally, I will teach myself angular&#x2F;vue&#x2F;react&#x2F;backbone&#x2F;knockout&quot;. After about 10 minutes I am filled with dread. I expect to learn about a specific piece of software, instead, I am greeted with requirements of previous knowledge on a whole bouquet of other technologies: node, webpack, babel, grunt...<p>It&#x27;s just discouraging. This whole thing feels like a farce. I watch colleagues investing time in this and I feel sorry for them.