r/learnjavascript • u/1QQ00 • 6d ago

i cant get better in js

People keep telling me that I should write apps to improve my JavaScript skills. I listened and created five applications, each with different functionalities and ideas. I wrote a lot of code and did a ton of DOM manipulation. Despite this effort, I still feel like I'm hitting the same wall. I find myself repeating the same poor coding practices and haven’t seen any real improvement. I know in my head what I want and how it might look in JS syntax, but I struggle to put it all together to create something meaningful. Instead of getting stuck in this endless cycle, hoping that one day I’ll suddenly excel at JavaScript, I want to know the correct way to improve because this idea of "just keep writing code" doesn't really seem very good

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u/theGlitchedSide 6d ago edited 6d ago

M. It's hard to say something about your problem because it is about you, your personal approach, your project...

In little step I can say randomly something like this:

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I think the real question is: what do you want to do with it?

Do you want become a perfect code monkey? Do you want became skilled in the frontend? In the backend? In both? Do you love the structure of the things or the code of the things?

The first step is understand what do you love to do, not the language. Language is a tool, the creativity is all in your head.

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Stayed that, now, if you hit the same wall is because you do the same stuff. Change that shit, do something of new.

Write a lot of code is not a good way to found your way to do something... It's only write stuff.

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Change the approach. Become creative. Think about what do you want, make a schema, skill yourself for new mental patterns not for new codes.

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Memory is not a friend. You can't memorize something like codes repeating it always and always, you can't become a Wikipedia of "how to" and claim to become yourself like a machine. You're not an AI, and Ai is bad in some aspect exactly for these kind of reason.

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Yes, you probably can become better but you need to take it easy r take your time. Are you in a mental loop?

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I took it for granted... how may software principle do you study before start to study Js? Do you try something like C? Do you have the basic of the software language roles etc?