On: The Frontend Treadmill

[yawnxyz]

> Newbies should read MDN and ignore everything else.

I think people forget how inaccessible it is for a newbie to start writing pure javascript directly from the API reference.

People need tutorials and walkthroughs, and need to build a an internal understanding of how these all work.

Frameworks help them abstract all that

[skydhash → yawnxyz]

> I think people forget how inaccessible it is for a newbie to start writing pure javascript directly from the API reference.

That's when you buy a book and try to do practice projects, and learn how everything works.

[poncho_romero → yawnxyz]

MDN has exactly those kinds of tutorials and walk throughs! It’s not all API documentation

[areoform → poncho_romero]

Which ones? Could you link to them?

[skgough → areoform]

HTML: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

JS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

They even have courses for frameworks.

React: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

Svelte: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

Vue: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

[yawnxyz → poncho_romero]

I've been using MDN for a decade, and this is a TIL!