React Developers Don’t Exist

Tari Ibaba
Coding Beauty
Published in
3 min readJul 10, 2024

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There is no such thing as a React developer — don’t ever call yourself that.

This is a huge mistake many software developers make that wastes so much of your time.

Focusing on tools instead of concepts. Losing sight of the big picture.

React is just a JavaScript tool. JavaScript is just a computing tool. Computing is just a problem-solving tool.

When I first started coding I was obsessed with languages and their specific syntaxes and APIs.

In fact once I hit a tiny learning roadblock I would switch to a new language expecting things to be different. And then again and again.

Not realizing that every language is fundamentally the same and built on the same core concepts!

  • Input processing output storage.
  • Selection sequence iteration.
  • Data and actions: Create Read Update Delete (“everything is CRUD”).
  • Divide & conquer: modules functions OOP…

There is no programming language anywhere that isn’t based on these core concepts. These are what you should focus on.

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Tari Ibaba
Coding Beauty

I help you gain the coding knowledge and skills to build the life you love.