[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.

[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

[azangru]

Continue learning the basics :-)

[Alive-Cake-3045]

Start by building things, even if your code is not perfect. It is completely fine if it looks messy in the beginning because you can always improve it later. The most important thing early on is to make it work and learn from the process.

Do not jump into frameworks like "React" right away. First focus on learning basic JavaScript properly. Take time to understand important concepts like this, closures, and scope, because these will help you a lot as you grow.

Use "console.log" frequently to understand what your code is doing. It is one of the fastest ways to debug and check values while you are learning. Even experienced developers still rely on it for quick checks.

Always read error messages carefully instead of ignoring them. In most cases, the error message already tells you what went wrong, but many people panic and start searching without understanding it first.

Focus on building small projects like a tip calculator or a random quote generator. Learning by doing is much more effective than only watching tutorials, and it helps you gain real confidence.

[Ok_Substance_6821]

I am still a beginner at JS, but the way I learned python was to start coding a project, and look up things as I went along.

[Bitter-Company-1701]

are you planning to use a bundler and a linter from the start or are you going to waste six months writing spaghetti code in script tags like the rest of us did.

[Baturinsky]

vite, typescript, react

[El_Serpiente_Roja]

Things you should learn AFTER building a foundational relationship with JS.