“User Agents” and the Advice That Follows
Jeremy Keith is once again beating the classic drum on how to approach web development. His starting point is a firm order of operations: begin with HTML, then move to CSS, and only then touch JavaScript. He warns against rushing into JavaScript too quickly, arguing you should really get to grips with HTML and CSS first.
But Keith quickly qualifies that advice with a real-world caveat. If your goal is simply to land a job as fast as possible, the recommendation changes entirely. In that scenario, he says, he would advise you to learn React instead.
Now, if that sounded like a site takeover, it wasn’t. The author of this piece readily confesses to being a React fan and admits to having enough experience to generally pick the right tool for the job. The post’s title, “User agents,” is meant quite literally, and readers are pointed to the original article for the full reasoning behind both stances.
