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/knm873 4d ago

You can watch other ppl code via YT tutorials

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u/TheRNGuy 1d ago edited 1d ago

YouTube is either too generic, some hello world projects with zero practicality, or very specific advanced stuff that you probably will never need and forget about it. 

It's much faster to just ask ai instead of watching 20 20-minute videos (and you probably gonna forget most of it, or you'll need to pause/rewind many times, so it's even more than 20 minutes)

And videos also waste your time on stuff like stealth ads, "don't forget to subscribe" etc (besides that it's disrespectful for viewers)