When to move on from html,css,js to react and tailwind
How to know that we are prepared or start moving to next phase coz i'm facing difficulty in making many small features integrating html,css and js doing it for so long now
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when you actually understand html, css and javascript, and understand what type of problems those 2 solutions try to solve
Neither Tailwind nor React are the “next phase” of anything. You can use vanilla HTML, CSS, JS for your entire career.
If you’re having problems then using other people’s code won’t make them go away…it’ll just feel that way for a while. But then you’ll run into new problems because of the framework.
Stick with the fundamentals until you’re comfortable with them. Then try a lib/framework if you really want to. Libraries and frameworks are designed to solve specific problems, so knowing what problems they solve go a long way towards telling you if you should use them.
For example, Tailwind solves the “I think CSS is a dumb language because I don’t want to learn how the cascade works” problem. While React solves the, “Facebook needs a way to scale to trillions of users and provide a smooth scrolling of thousands of posts” problem.
Do you have either of those? If not, don’t learn them. Unless, of course, your local job market requires it. If that’s the case then learn them sooner. But if you’re a hobbyist or not in the looking for job phase then learn the underlying language well first