Elvie #117
Apr17
on April 17, 2026
at 10:54 am
This strip first appeared in issue #277 of Linux Magazine. Like the previous strip, this is a little exaggerated but was borne of Mark’s real experience as a professional front-end web application developer.
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↓ Transcript
[Panel 1: Elvie and James are in a bookshop. James is holding 3 books]
James: I want to become a web developer, so I've picked up these three books on HTML, CSS and JavaScript
[Panel 2: Elvie is loading James up with a large, toppling pile of additional books]
Elvie: These days you will also need to learn about NodeJS, TypeScript, React, Lit, Deno, NextJS, SQL, Babel, Bun, Yarn, Redis, Jest, Angular, Mongo, Material UI, Vue, Playwright, PHP, ESLint, Tailwind, Storyboook, WebPack…
James: I want to become a web developer, so I've picked up these three books on HTML, CSS and JavaScript
[Panel 2: Elvie is loading James up with a large, toppling pile of additional books]
Elvie: These days you will also need to learn about NodeJS, TypeScript, React, Lit, Deno, NextJS, SQL, Babel, Bun, Yarn, Redis, Jest, Angular, Mongo, Material UI, Vue, Playwright, PHP, ESLint, Tailwind, Storyboook, WebPack…
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