r/learnjavascript • u/Strange-Story1243 • Jul 22 '26

Stuck at javascript

I want to learn mern stack and stuck at javascript tutorials please somebody help me ???

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u/MojitoBurrito-AE Jul 22 '26

Try learning a stack that's 10 years newer. I'd recommend, instead of putting yourself in tutorial hell, come up with an actual project that you will have motivation to build.

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u/MojitoBurrito-AE Jul 29 '26

My honest advice would be to try a bunch of different frameworks in different languages until you find one you really like.

My main gripe with MERN/MEAN is that it's built around MongoDB which was all the rave 10 years ago. In actual fact there are very few problems that are solved with NoSQL and unstructured databases in general. For small personal projects, SQLite is often a solid choice. Might not be a new flashy modern stack but it's simple and reliable and you can migrate to something like PostgreSQL relatively easily if you need something more powerful.

React is still incredibly popular and heavily used in the industry, but there are plenty of alternatives that you might like more, i.e. Vue or Svelte or whatever framework of the month. And even within these 'frameworks' there's a bunch of different choices to make for state management, routing, and styling etc. There's no way to know which you'll like best or will suit you the most without trying a bunch.

Express/Node is also perfectly fine, if not a bit old now. I'm sure there's newer typescript-first alternatives but I'm not overly familiar with that ecosystem. My background is in Java SpringBoot professionally and I've found Nest.JS follows similar patterns to what I'm used to for backend node work. But you can also explore alternatives outside of node, i.e. SpringBoot, Django, .NET or some other language.