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> I feel sorry though for someone getting into frontend dev now.

I most certainly don’t.

As someone who has mostly done low level coding and used to generally dislike my few interactions with web frontend development, I was extremely surprised when I picked up React a few years ago for a personal project.

The whole thing feels like actual proper development. What a breath of fresh air compared to the situation before.

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> personal project

In professional projects with teams of developers contributing and PMs wanting feature flags, tracing, complex behavioral logic, it gets crazy.

I’d say even more so for professional projects you’re better off with React.

Been there and done that with and without. Junior (and Senior) devs fundamentally don’t read the docs. That and requirements churn are the problems.

Given that, it ends up so much better with React.

How did you learn? I'm an embedded dev and when I tried to learn basic web dev, all the resources were a mess of importing unnecessary libraries

With the official doc. The react doc is well written. You have a quick start section, a good tutorial and the API is fully covered.

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