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Re: Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS

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Do the same thing you might do when browsing open source code on github. Go to websites of well known companies or by people that provide web design services, view source, look at a feature that doesn't make sense at first, and then search on Google or Mozilla Developer Network or Stackoverflow for more details, and then write a practice page in a basic text editor.

As far as design, you cannot go wrong with bootstrap. However, to really learn design, do not study web design. Study things like Bahaus, billboard design, marketing and messaging and PR, how to compose for simplicity, SEO optimization techniques and their influence on design, etc. Seriously, the people that learn how to make websites and want to tell you how to make websites absolutely and hilariously SUCK at design.

Re: Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS

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I was going to post the same. I think the learning has to be split in three components: * CSS: learn how to use flexbox and grids, the rest will follow. * HTML5: this is pretty straight forward to learn IMO, maybe someone has a good resource? (that does not talk about JS at all preferably) * JS: This one is tricky, if you really want to learn more about JS it is its own big world. Two advice I would give: learn the l…

Simply use create-react-app and don’t worry about setting up Babel and Webpack

Looks promising https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app !

That's the one part of the stack I still need to learn (becuase jQuery is not trendy anymore apparently)

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