Knowing CSS is mastery to Front end Development

There are countless articles why developers should not focus on Frameworks too much and instead learn to understand the underlying languages. But I think rarely we can find good reasons except that Frameworks come and go. To me, the main reason is different: You won’t be a master at frontend development if you don’t understand underlying mechanisms of a language. A usual stack today is React together with countless layers in between the language and the framework itself. CSS as styling method is not used natively but via JavaScript tools that translate it into native CSS. For JavaScript we nowadays write an opinionated Framework language mix using TypeScript which by itself is translated to native JavaScript in the end again. And while we all know the comfort of these tools and languages, there are many things that make it easier if you understand a browser’s ecosystem: Debug JavaScript errors easier and also in foreign environments without a debugging browser extension installed De ... Read full article.