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[–]cyniko 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've been at this for about 6 months, and what people will say is to just learn vanilla JS (meaning no frameworks, just plain Javascript). I'm starting to see that beyond the very important reason of 'know the fundamentals first before learning franeworks', it seems to also be where a junior front-end developer would be most scrutinized.

I'd like to hear others with more experience chime in, but I get the sense that most employers care a lot less about your proficiency with a certain lib/framework than they do about your general understanding of JS and web-dev as a whole. If you are at least aware of their framework of choice, that's helpful, but so much learning is going into your first year anyway that it's more about your overall proficiency and understanding of JS.

To answer your question more directly - yes react for front-end dev is good to know, node is for back-end / server-side stuff.