Should I learn javascript in 2018?

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its 2018 and i'm seeing almost everybody using web building tools to create websites. is it finally time to give up learning javasctipt, css and all.... and just learn how to use a web builder? help me out, 'cause web builder tools seem to incorporate everything or maybe i dont know. But friends have been advising me to just use these tool instead of giving myself headaches.... ok?
i dont know, i just need some proffesional advice right now. which of these will help me become an exceptional web developer?
what should i do?

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Posted 23-Apr-18 2:16am

David chisala

Updated 23-Apr-18 3:42am

RickZeeland

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CPallini 23-Apr-18 15:56pm

Well you may also delay it until 2019... :-)

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These tool-kits come along with great regularity and tend to disappear at exactly the same rate. It's not wise to pin your future on any of them.

And furthermore, let's suppose that one of them really does come up with the goods and makes creating a website so easy your cat could do it (let's call it SuperAceAutoDev). What would your value be as a SuperAceAutoDev developer? Well, if all you could do was the out-of-the-box stuff, you'd be about as valuable as your cat. Maybe even less so, as your cat costs less to feed.

If, on the other hand, you could step in and fix or customise the bits that SuperAceAutoDev has created, you'd be worth a lot more than your cat because you know how to do the stuff that he doesn't know how to do.

Those bits will include all the basic building blocks of the web - HTML, CSS, Javascript and a programming language. The more you know about those, the greater your value to the job market. In truth, you'd be hard-pressed to find any employer who'd even look at you without some of those fundamental skills.

So, I'm afraid, the simple answer is "Yes", if you want to be taken seriously as a web-developer, you've really got to learn Javascript.

Posted 23-Apr-18 3:43am

PeejayAdams

Updated 23-Apr-18 3:44am

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David chisala 7-Jun-18 7:17am

Thanks peejayAdams. This is very helpful, now i can go ahead learning javascript knowing it is well worth it :)..... thanks

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W∴ Balboos, *GHB* · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-23T02:33:00

So long as you use "web tools", you'll be hostage to what they let you do and how they let you do it. And then, of course, the may or may not be comparable across platforms.

Learning javascript, php, html, css, TSQL - well that take some effort.

You/your friends are part of a generation of cell-phone junkies who don't really want to put in the real work - like never learning to cook and relying on take-out.

Your choice. Pay now or pay later . . . or take it to the next step and let someone else write the code, altogether.

I don't intend to sound mean - but you either want to code or want coloring book where you just fill in the spaces between the lines someone else drew. What's your intent? Nature? Attitude?