Though any self-respecting web developer should sit down and learn CSS.
Part of the problem with CSS is that we seem to relegate it to something we don't need to learn. "Well, it's just CSS. I'm a developer!" And then we complain when we don't understand it or when our jerry-built sequence of StackOverflow copy-and-pastes is a clusterfuck to deal with.
I myself realized I was working off knowledge I read in a CSS book I read in 2004, so I committed a week of updating my knowledge on my own. I realized very few people actually do that, as I'd easily gone 15 years without doing it, and even with my 2004-level knowledge of CSS I'd always be amazed when a fellow 30-yo web developer didn't know how you can offset absolutely-positioned children inside a relative-positioned parent or something just as entry level. Just like, until recently, I'd probably amaze someone that I didn't know what the rem, vh, and vw units were.
It's a terrible waste of time if you can find a good alternative. Luckily Elm-UI is exactly that.
Edit: of course it's worthwhile to learn enough CSS to understand more or less what it does since it's so pervasive. I mean that using it as the main way to lay out pages is a frustrating experience in many cases.
Part of the problem with CSS is that we seem to relegate it to something we don't need to learn. "Well, it's just CSS. I'm a developer!" And then we complain when we don't understand it or when our jerry-built sequence of StackOverflow copy-and-pastes is a clusterfuck to deal with.
I myself realized I was working off knowledge I read in a CSS book I read in 2004, so I committed a week of updating my knowledge on my own. I realized very few people actually do that, as I'd easily gone 15 years without doing it, and even with my 2004-level knowledge of CSS I'd always be amazed when a fellow 30-yo web developer didn't know how you can offset absolutely-positioned children inside a relative-positioned parent or something just as entry level. Just like, until recently, I'd probably amaze someone that I didn't know what the rem, vh, and vw units were.