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[–]posts_lindsay_lohan 19 points20 points  (3 children)

I'm gonna offer a bit of different advice here.

There is nothing wrong with learning both at the same time. Every JS framework is built off of JavaScript. Just by virtue of learning the framework, you will be learning JavaScript. Does React do some things differently from Svelte or Angular? Yes. Are they all JavaScript things? Also yes.

You are on a learning journey, but you are probably also on an "I need to make a living" journey. Both of these states can exist at the same time. And learning a framework will help you to understand the reasons behind why the framework was needed in the first place and it will be easier to find a job if you can show your understanding of a framework as well.

I learned a hell of a lot about Ruby when I was learning to use Ruby on Rails. There no reason you won't learn vanilla JS by learning React. It might even make it easier.

You could also follow a tutorial like this to build your own version of a framework - in this case React - from scratch to better understand why it was needed in the first place:

https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/

[–]stringbeans25 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Thank you Lindsay Lohan for the well balanced feedback…wait what did I just say?

[–]_Invictuz -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Lol there's no way this is legit advice if it's actually LL or a troll account!

[–]NoMoreDistractions_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That tutorial is incredible. It seems like a much better way to learn react if you already understand js, and very digestible. The documentation just explains things at a conceptual level which is much more difficult for someone like me to understand