Comment by vsgherzi
11 hours ago
Disregarding the fact that Bryan operates oxide a company that has multiple investors and customers (id say this proves valuable knowledge) the crazier fact is that people think html is useless knowledge.
React USES html. Understanding html is core to understanding react. React does not in anyway devalue html in the same way that driving automatic devalues driving manual
Go to Facebook.com and right click view source and tell me html is not being devalued. No person who wants to write aesthetic html would write that stuff.
Tbh this is like looking at any binary's assembly code and complaining it's "unasthetic".
Whatever blob of HTML the browser is offered is just the end result of multiple "compilation" steps. Nobody has spent a single iota of time thinking about whether it's pretty.
Just like opening any binary produces inelegant assembler.
Do the same to Google.com
When it matters it matters. Even in facebooks case they made react fit for their use case. You think the react devs didn’t understand html? Do you think quality frontends can be written without any understanding of html?
Like the article says we’ve moved an abstraction up. That does not make the html knowledge useless