My Philosophy on the Basics

Good engineers shouldn't care if they know the latest framework.  Good engineers should care that they understand the fundamentals of the language used to create the latest framework.  Today's it's React, tomorrow maybe it's Vue.  Yesterday it was Angular, and a while ago it was Backbone*.  And throughout it all jQuery was there.  All frameworks and libraries... all built with Javascript.

Learning and knowing a framework isn't hard if you don't forget that all you're doing is using someone's clever use of Javascript.  Know what's going on under the hood and it doesn't matter what the newest best thing to Javascript since sliced bread is.

So yes, you'll see that I've done a few things here and there.  But I just like to say that I've learned a few languages, learned them well, and use the latest clever use of them.

• I am not in any way ranking these frameworks.  I have listed them in a semi-chronological order of release into the Javascript landscape.  Frameworks are just tools to get the job done.