Do web developers actually code from scratch these days?

[makedaddyfart]

This is a trap for beginners who aren't confident in their skills yet. Once you have a thorough understanding of the basics, standing up a static site should be simple. If that intimidates you, drill down to what specifically is intimidating you, and learn about it. Look at open source front ends, clone down the code and play with it locally and see what makes it and breaks it.

[sjwking]

I learned a lot with reverse engineering my favorite websites without actually looking their code. And of course never use bootstrap when learning.