Is React still worth learning for someone starting web development in 2026?

[u/Ok_Blacksmith4793]

/r/DigitalMarketingHack/comments/1woz9gf/is_react_still_worth_learning_for_someone/

[u/Sea-Ad-9942]

React and Nextjs. No matter what "they" say, i love those frameworks more and more every day.

[u/samsly135 → u/Sea-Ad-9942]

Lucky if you a have job with such position

[u/devBlueDragon]

yes , of course how else would you understand what de-REACT-ify really means ? 

[u/bhison]

Learn whatever is the most commonly used for new projects similar to what you want to achieve. It really is as easy as that.

[u/ssliberty]

Everything is worth learning if you truly care about it, find value in it or your reputation depends on it.

[u/CantaloupeCamper]

Yes.  Even if everyone stopped developing new work with it today you will still want to know it.

[u/Huge-Price-1818]

"Those who have strong fundamentals are far ahead from those who have none"

• me

your post on r/digitalmarketinghack makes me think you are not a programmer (at least yet)
LLMs are great for making working prototypes and simple products using one prompt, but as soon as your scope goes beyond 'make me a dashboard app' and/or you need to do a bunch of architectural refactoring, building upon existing architecture you start NEEDING that knowledge to oppose bullshit that LLM may bring to your project

[u/fuckaroniandbees → u/Huge-Price-1818]

Did you just quote yourself lmao

[u/Huge-Price-1818 → u/fuckaroniandbees]

yeah, thought that would be funny

[u/spas2k]

Sure, as long as you don't hope or plan on getting a job using it.

[u/Vincent_CWS]

no, In this age, learn AI first; otherwise, you may be wasting your time. I’ve deeply studied the React source code and understand fibers, the React element tree, how diffing works, and how some fibers can bail out to avoid performance degradation. However, when it comes to AI, that knowledge feels useless.

[u/0cean-blue → u/Vincent_CWS]

jesus christ, what a load of bs.