PHP 7 is awesome. #roastme

Recruiter contacts me on a software dev jobs platform because my profile looks great.

Job is for a fullstack JS developer and they use React, Node.js and some other stuff I've never touched.

Nowhere on my profile is any mention of React.

I thank him for reaching out and politely decline an interview by stating I have zero experience with React.

He says, oh, he thought I'd be willing to learn React since I know vue.js.

Why do people think learning a new JS framework is easy, and that devs who use a similar framework is willing to learn another one, and that "it's all just JS in the end"?

React is not just JS, it's fucking spaghetti. The React code I've read was cognitively demanding to decipher (or maybe I am low IQ lol), because it's not "just JS". It's a nasty spaghetti of HTML, CSS, and TypeScript.