--- title: HTML, CSS & JavaScript: The Three Skills Every Developer... description: Argues that beginner developers make a mistake by jumping straight into frameworks like React or Next.js before mastering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Covers why... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/html-css-javascript-the-three-skills-every-developer-must-master-before-chasing-frameworks-hq5do4uqz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HTML, CSS & JavaScript: The Three Skills Every Developer Must Master Before Chasing Frameworks | daily.dev og:description: Argues that beginner developers make a mistake by jumping straight into frameworks like React or Next.js before mastering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Covers why... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/html-css-javascript-the-three-skills-every-developer-must-master-before-chasing-frameworks-hq5do4uqz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hq5Do4uqz.png og:image:alt: HTML, CSS & JavaScript: The Three Skills Every Developer Must Master Before Chasing Frameworks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # HTML, CSS & JavaScript: The Three Skills Every Developer Must Master Before Chasing Frameworks **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 5 min read · 43 upvotes · 16 comments ## Summary Argues that beginner developers make a mistake by jumping straight into frameworks like React or Next.js before mastering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Covers why each of the three core web technologies is foundational, how frameworks are ultimately built on top of them, and why strong fundamentals make learning any new technology faster. Also recommends learning by building small projects and reading open-source code rather than passively watching tutorials. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@allinonetools** · 6 upvotes > Every time I get stuck in a framework, the solution usually comes back to understanding vanilla JavaScript. **@nthadam** · 2 upvotes > I prefer the analogy of a body: HTML is the skeleton, CSS the skin, JS the muscles. (Structure, appearance, and interaction - although CSS has been blurring some lines on interactivity) **@harshitmanepally** · 2 upvotes > Well that is something every beginner to code ends up making atleast once even warned. > Even I too went thorugh the same though I was warned by many of my seniors about it. **@muhammedjamiuanateabdulsalam** · 1 upvotes > HTML, CSS & Javascript is the building block of web sites, understanding them very well make the framework more easy, when it come to functionalities, You have no other option than to understand Javascript as much as you can, **@alikaali** · 1 upvotes > With Ai in these days !? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Web Development Course: Learn the Skills to Build Modern Websites and Start Your Career](https://daily.dev/posts/web-development-course-learn-the-skills-to-build-modern-websites-and-start-your-career-irhlswsrt) · Medium · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Programming principles for self taught front-end developers](https://daily.dev/posts/programming-principles-for-self-taught-front-end-developers-zp5fgxbnt) · Piccalilli · 23 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/html-css-javascript-the-three-skills-every-developer-must-master-before-chasing-frameworks-hq5do4uqz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"HTML, CSS & JavaScript: The Three Skills Every Developer Must Master Before Chasing Frameworks","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/html-css-javascript-the-three-skills-every-developer-must-master-before-chasing-frameworks-hq5do4uqz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/html-css-javascript-the-three-skills-every-developer-must-master-before-chasing-frameworks-hq5do4uqz"},"datePublished":"2026-07-22T15:36:10.639Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:20:19.023Z","description":"Argues that beginner developers make a mistake by jumping straight into frameworks like React or Next.js before mastering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 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