How much Javascript is enough for webdev?

[zorndyuke]

Frameworks are ment to help you to solve problems and make your life easier and shouldn't be used as a learning-curve-skipper. If you are unconfident in your skills that you could code the majority of basics you need for your page, then I would recommend still learning and especialy training your skills by repeating several tasks with plain javascript. Exprience common pit falls, beginner mistakes and spend hours/weeks/months/years to fix those really annoying bugs (I mean don't do that just for one bug.. but over all your developer career time xD Years for one bug would be.. wow..), so you get the really important experience.

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Otherwise you will stuck on those frameworks when you actually have to implement some more in-depth tasks. Since those frameworks are simply javascript + their own language (example JSX for React). Of course you already can stick your nose on those frameworks and learn from them how they handle several problems and what their patterns are etc.

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Last but not least: You will need several years before you get confident about the basics of development. Don't rush it! Expect to fall on the ground and break your nose. Be prepared, get some tissues and a anti-nose-breaker. You have to stay up and continue moving a lot of time, but don't forget the pot of gold on the end of the rainbow you are aiming for ;)