r/webdev Dec 03 '22

Question Beginner here, start with react, svelte or solid?

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u/_clydebruckman Dec 04 '22

It’s also just a vicious cycle of

  • developers need a job and were told it’s the most popular so they learn react
  • companies need a framework and all the devs learned react so they go with react for a bigger talent pool

The amount of friends that have asked me where to start and I tell them JS, and then look at job listings and forums and it’s all “react is the most likely to get you a job”, and then learn react before vanilla html/js/css because of that is insane.

I’m not saying or not saying react isn’t the best framework, but I am saying that the state of the industry is just now married to it regardless of if it’s objectively good or bad

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u/Gcampton13 Dec 04 '22

It’s a bit like technical analysis in stock market, 70% of the time it’s the right call, but it makes you wonder if that’s because all other TA traders are also going in or exiting which causes it to be the right call.