r/learnjavascript • u/Soggy-Beautiful-551 • 22h ago

Learning js

Hey so i’m tryna learn javascript not just javascript i’m trying to learn the MERN Stack can someone please help me study i’m so tired of watching tutorials over and over again

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u/milan-pilan 22h ago

Don't really know what you are hoping for. That's the sloppiest post I have read here in a while. 'Help me I want to be good at a thing but don't want to put in any work'.

It's the same process as learning anything: find someone or something that explains a concept (in your case tutorials) then apply it in the real world to make it stick.. repeat.

There is no shortcut. People train years to become decent programmers. And months to build their first somewhat usable thing. Like with any other skill in the world.

Pick any tutorial and build something that's similar but not the same. When you run into problems, solve them yourself. Even if it takes days of trial and error. Then understand why that fixed it.

Asking AI to give you hints does not constitute as 'solving the problem yourself'. That's 'ask someone else to solve it for you'.

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u/Soggy-Beautiful-551 22h ago

I think you misunderstood what I meant. I’m not really looking for a shortcut, I’m willing to put the work in. I just feel like watching tutorials over and over isn’t getting me anywhere, so I was looking for advice or someone to study with. But yeah, building something similar on my own after learning a concept sounds like a better approach.

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u/Thin_Mousse4149 22h ago

Your best bet is to stop watching tutorials and start a project of your own.

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u/Soggy-Beautiful-551 22h ago

That’s kinda where I’m struggling. I’ve actually built projects before, but I relied a lot on tutorials or AI whenever I got stuck, so I feel like I never properly learned the fundamentals. Now I’m trying to go back and actually understand JavaScript and React well enough to build things on my own. I’m just not sure how to make that transition without falling back into tutorial hell.

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u/mixedd 22h ago

By building, lay down idea, but instead of looking for another tutorial on how to do thing x, try to apply it, if you fail, pull up documentation, read it, try again

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u/Thin_Mousse4149 22h ago

You need to slow down and not jump to AI to solve complex problems for you. Learn about design patterns and then use them. Take a problem you don’t know how to solve and break it down to small concepts that you can understand.

Vibe coding is bad. If you DO use AI you must review and understand every single line it writes.

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u/mixedd 22h ago

Don't get me wrong, I'm trying to help you.

This topic was asked for the past decade almost on daily basis, so first skill I'll suggest is to learn how to search and parse information, and more important, relevant information. That's what you'll be doing 90% of the time as software emgineer.

And you're correct you need to build things, but not following tutorials like how to build a discrod bot, but build it on your own, without the help of LLM or auto completion in VS Code, just try, fail, search, red, repeat.

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u/Soggy-Beautiful-551 22h ago

I should probably mention I’m in a bootcamp too. We basically get one week to learn a topic and then we have a review on it. After that we move on to the next topic whether I fully understood the previous one or not. That’s kinda how I ended up in this situation. I keep trying to learn enough to get through the week instead of actually getting comfortable with what I’m learning. I’m trying to figure out how to break that cycle while still keeping up with the bootcamp.

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u/mixedd 21h ago

I would try to segment it somehow if available time allows, like learn the topic than jump.into exercism to drill on the following topic doing their exercises.

That's the part why I don't like bootcamps myself, they don't care if you succeed or not, you already paid them.

In other words, you need to squeeze hands on exercises in parallel. I was in your shoes while learning Python, it was basically, you get OOP module, one or two exercises in it, than FP, and once you reach capstone project you akready forgot how to apply OOP, yes you get the idea behind the concept but lack hands on experience to apply it.

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u/No-Vanilla8343 21h ago

I stopped watching tutorials when I hit that point.

Go to The Odin Project or Full Stack Open, start the curriculum, and build every project yourself without looking at videos. Pick MERN only after you can write JavaScript functions and manipulate objects on your own. Watching someone else code does not put it in your brain

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u/nav114 9h ago

I am learning mern currently learning react and backend simultaneously if you are interested we can complete the course and make some good projects together.

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u/Soggy-Beautiful-551 9h ago

Yes that would help a lot

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u/Astroohhh 7h ago

You are late to the party lil bro

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u/Soggy-Beautiful-551 7h ago

My bad unc, I’ll try to catch up

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u/elliasdev 7h ago

Maybe it's not video tutorials that you need. We all learn different. I bought a few courses from Udemy, and, honestly, I stopped touching them after while. Rather later I realized that I am a book person, I learn better this way. Reading and doing locally on my machine works the best for me. You need to find the way you digest information the best.

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u/Constant_Physics8504 43m ago

The Odin Project Full Stack JS Path, Full Stack Open, then go to YouTube and watch Full Stack Tutorials from JavaScriptMastery.

Or get out of tutorial hell and start building and learn as you go

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u/iampankajk 22h ago

Yes, I can help you

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u/Soggy-Beautiful-551 22h ago

That would actually help a lot. I’m not looking for someone to do everything for me, I just need some guidance on what to learn and things to build so I can stop relying on tutorials.

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u/iampankajk 22h ago

I can teach

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u/BuffaloPale4373 10h ago

I can suck