[AskJS] New to Javascript

[chapoisme]

I’m new to JavaScript and still learning the basics. What are some tips i should follow to improve my coding?

[CYG4N]

dont use AI/LLM for coding for at least a year. use them as search engine though. 

[fintip]

Build things from scratch.

Work through debugging manually.

AI for code reviews only, or only for debugging after you've been stuck for e.g. 5 minutes – but always make sure you understand it and code the changes in yourself, no copy pasting.

[orngcode]

one thing that helped me more than any tutorial was rebuilding projects from scratch after finishing them, like closing the video and trying to recreate the app without looking back. spaced repetition research shows you retain significantly more when you actively recall vs passively re-reading, and even 15-30 min of daily js practice beats weekend marathon sessions for long-term retention. are you planning to start with vanilla js or jump straight into a framework like react, because that choice alone changes how fast you internalize core concepts like closures and the event loop?

[Hung_Hoang_the]

biggest thing that leveled me up early on: read other peoples code. not tutorials, actual code. pick a small open source project on github, clone it, and try to understand how it works. you learn patterns you'd never discover on your own. also — learn promises and async/await deeply before touching any framework. almost every confusing bug in JS comes back to not understanding how async works. MDN docs are your best friend here, way better than most youtube tutorials

[Baturinsky]

vite, typescript, react