Thanks, I really appreciate it. Providing the best value I can for people reading my articles, is my primary concern. About the videos, it has crossed my mind, but I have a problem with a very tight schedule. I'm a father to a young boy, a husband to a beautiful woman, have a full-time job, working out 4 times a week...video editing, besides blogging, would be even more time-consuming. But you never know what the future brings you :) I might end up just doing what you've suggested.

For a web developer these days, it's essential to know JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. So, my advice would be to begin your journey there, from the good old trio. Start with the HTML, then learn CSS selectors and how to style the document, and afterward go for JavaScript and dynamic DOM manipulation. Check out this post after reading this comment. A great source with a lot of documentation is the official MDN website. For the server side, I would recommend .NET and C# since the syntax is similar to JavaScript (TypeScript especially, but don't worry about this now), therefore, you will not write your server-side code in a totally different way. If you choose PHP, for example, it will look and feel totally different. Also, Node.js plays a significant role in web development these days, so the knowledge about it and the ecosystem around it is a big, if not the biggest, plus. It all depends on the app you are developing. Complex applications, like enterprise level, would have a really hard time operating only based on JavaScript. Of course, some basic programming knowledge is required. You need to be familiar with concepts like iterations, sequences, conditionals...No one will care if you know who invented the programming and who created React, and yet you don't know to write a for loop. So focus on practical knowledge. If you learn something the practical way, the theory will be easier to understand later on. Differentiating the primitive data types like string, int, boolean...is also required. After mastering those, array and list manipulation would be the next step and after, you can start thinking the OOP (Object Oriented Programming) way. You can skip the text below OOP changes your way of thinking, and you are shifting on the question What instead of How , you stop writing conditionals and start using polymorphism and inheritance, but you shouldn't worry about this right now. It's the next level of you as a developer. After completing all the above you can start thinking about the frameworks and libraries. I would recommend Vue since, in my opinion, it's the easiest one to learn by someone who is a beginner. But don't be mistaken, if it's easy to learn, it doesn't mean that it's less powerful and featureless comparing with React or Angular. I would not recommend Angular since it's based on TypeScript and you shouldn't learn it before you learn JavaScript. TypeScript is a programming language, s superset of JavaScript which enforces the static typing. You can leave it for the very end of your learning journey. Regarding IDEs (software to use to develop your app), I would recommend Visual Studio CODE. So, your milestones would be something like: HTML CSS Basic programming course (variables, methods, classes, arguments, parameters...) JavaScript Node.js, C# Vue TypeScript Practice all above (a lot) in Visual Studio CODE After your for loop of the above stuff ends, you can start learning some advanced concepts like OOP, SOLID principles and functional programming. Best regards.

I usually use CSS Flexbox, but for no particular reason. It seems more natural to me and it has a little better overall browser support.

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Thank you for your reply. I sure hope so too, but the community will decide.

Hi, thank you for your reply. Well, now days it is pretty hard to develop something that wasn't provided by something else or by someone else. I guess I was aiming on simplicity and on the good old days when our apps were based on the Html, CSS and JavaScript. Angular is too opinionated, typescript focused and forces you to build the app the way it wants. React has a strong focus on JavaScript only. Vue.js has the most similarities with the PlazarJS. The difference is that PlazarJS is a little more object oriented and has a lot of built in methods that can help you construct your component and its children. It has elements of the ExtJS. ExtJS requires a fee, and PlazarJS is licensed under the MIT. PlazarJS doesn't require a big setup, you can drop the js file in your html and you are ready to go. One neat thing with PlazarJS is that you can define the component viewmodel and/or template on the server. This is useful if you are building a .NET MVC app, for example. So, to answer your question, the existing frameworks solve pretty much the same problems like PlazarJS does, but sometimes I think that things could be simpler and I wanted to provide another option for the people with different preferences.

Hi people! My name is Milos and I'm a passionate tech guy I've been a professional programmer for the past 6 years My latest personal project: plazarjs I consider myself to be a full-stack programmer, and I very much enjoy in writing code and learning new things. My primary focus is on JavaScript, ECMAScript, C#.NET, ASP.NET MVC. If you like to see more, check out my linkedin account.