I purchased Scrimba(front end career path, covering HTML CSS JavaScript and react, plus more things like APIs, UI and responsive design and more). im about 60% in and i decided for my goals with web development(first go to local businesses and offer cheap websites to gain experience, then advertise online) wordpress is a better choice, here so here are the reasons:
i plan to make mostly simple websites, maybe eCommerce or just landing pages, nothing fancy that(from my understanding) needs the complexity of react and JS. wordpress seems to be much more efficient with time of making the website, prices, simplicity and more. for non-complex websites, it really seems to do the job better.
now, for the question. if i go to the WordPress path, is there a reason to finish my course? i already covered HTML CSS JS and i have just React and UI design left, but it seems these 2 are pretty complex and can take some time to master, which hinders the time it will take me to start wordpress. my thinking at the beginning was finish react in case ill need it for the future, since i already purchased the course(about 90$), but is that necessary? i am also pretty hyped to start wordpress already it its a bit of a bummer to spend 2 months+ on something i wont use.
(i did a pretty extensive research about this, though please correct me if im wrong at anything)
hope it was clear, any advice will be greatly appreciated
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If you just want to build a website for yourself, you don’t need to learn React. But if you want to become a developer, you should learn it.
There are lots of developers out there building react front ends onto headless WordPress builds, but it tends to be for large / novel websites. I’d say there’s no harm in learning it, and react defiantly has its advantages, but it’s certainly not required knowledge for WordPress.
If your goal is to work on advanced development projects then I would learn react. If you want to build sites that are suitable to 90% of business websites then no, you don’t need to learn it.
Learn it. It will not hurt you.
React will be very important in next WP versions.
UI design will give you huge advantage over average WP developer.
If you start learning WP, start with official WP courses: https://learn.wordpress.org/courses/#introduction-to-wordpress
Success.
React has made it’s way into WordPress with the introduction of Gutenberg and Blocks, so yeah there is a somewhat of a intersection here.
You have to askk yourself the question where you want to go in the future though. If you start building WordPress Sites with premade Themes or Things like Elementor, you might get some experience with working with clients and what it means to work on a website, but you won’t get better and beeing a developer and might get stuck there.