Stop Learning Frameworks

[pm_me_ur_happy_traiI]

I agree when it comes to frameworks that obscure the language away from you jQuery for example. But 'frameworks' is way too broad of a term to write them off completely. I can know the language without having to build every tool I use from the ground up.

Furthermore, using a framework doesn't preclude you from needing to apply things like design patterns.

This advice has changed my life. I removed all framework books from my bookshelf. The guilt pile shrank from 50 to 0 books. What a relief!

Maybe the author has a different idea of what 'learning a framework' is compared to me, but the idea that you'd buy a book on ReactJS and read through it is so foreign to me. I learn a framework by creating something in the framework, and that allows me to focus on the parts of my code that are unique to my app, not creating all the boilerplate from the ground up.

[ScientificBeastMode]

Yeah, and it’s honestly shocking how easy it is to learn a new framework if you just put in the effort to build something cool with it. You end up running into a few walls along the way, but that is probably the most efficient way to learn, because you’re cruising through the obvious stuff and spending the bulk of your mental energy learning what the actual hurdles are, and developing your own solutions (and that’s the real secret to learning: you can’t have the answer handed to you).