alt Hacker News> why bother learning two paradigms
Objection. Your React is ultimately turning into HTML so you DO have to learn HTML + CSS. You just have an abstraction over it.
Replies
0x3f • last Thursday at 3:49 PM
That just makes HTML/CSS part of the React paradigm though. You can still use all those features in a React app, after all. The 'new paradigm' to learn with HTMX is how it does reactivity/interactivity.
culi • yesterday at 4:07 AM
This featured article is about HTMX not HTML. Ofc everyone working in the FE should know HTML/CSS
css_apologist • last Thursday at 9:02 PM
honestly both the react haters & the htmx haters are wrong on this
if you care about have a solid UI, you should learn everything
you should learn css, react, svelte, vue, rails, tailwind, html
if you don't and you say you actually care about your UI, your opinion is actually irrelevant
That's like saying my C# is getting turned into CLR bytecode, so I do have to learn CLR bytecode because I have an abstraction over it.
Yet I know roughly what it is, but I couldn't begin to actually write the stuff myself.
Good abstractions mean you don't have to worry about the layer below.
Now of course it's not really the case that React holds up to being a good abstraction, especially when it comes to CSS and styling, but I don't think it's a forgone conclusion that abstractions force you to learn the level below.
Otherwise we'd all spend half our time learning assembly.
I do have sympathy though for a developer who just wants to focus on the higher level paradigm and let the library maintainers worry about the innards.