Asad Rizvi

Hello, A question to frontend developers. I am a beginner on frontend.

I am building a UI for my company to replace old legacy one with React and this question is about choosing how to apply design to it.

I have Tailwind CSS on one hand and Ant Design on the other (I didnt like mui and Bootstrap doesn't seem to have enterprise components as ant) As far as I understand, tailwind is great. It allows me to literally build an application without touching the css but I have to build my own react components with it. Ant design or mantine has ready to use components which I can use and rapidly build my application.

My question is, is it the right approach to:

• Use a component framework for now and replace legacy app.
• Introduce tailwind later when I have a frontend resource in hand and then build own component library

Thank you.

I am building an API that can be achieved from either.

It's a simple CRUD API.

Is there a well-known public API in production by a known company powered by AWS Lambda?

I see that everybody uses containers instead.

Be good at javascript initially. Forget mongo or anything for now.

Nowadays, everybody is using components to build their frontend and I hardly see someone touching html deeply.

For css framework, choose a utility framework such as Tailwind CSS. It wont look magic to you and wont hide technical specs like magic.

Choose one front-end framework (I recommend react.js or vue.js) for employability and node/express combo for the backend.

Choosing a framework be it angular, react, ember or vue is personal preference. I would say start with each and build something that utilise state management (todo list perhaps?) and see which style you are comfortable with.

If you wants to get employed, React is a wiser choice. It also helps you build native mobile apps with react-native . If you are building enterprise app with alot of client-side data, nothing beats Ember.js ember-data.

If you are like me who is prototyping light-weight startup and would like to move fast and missing your first front-end learning (angular 1), go with Vue.js . NativeScript-Vue is the binding to build mobile native apps with it.