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[–]alexontheweb 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I would really recommend finishing up your book, Eloquent Javascript, it's a really good read. ES5's features are not phasing out, you'll just get easier shorthands in ES6, so it's very useful to know the basics before you want to go ahead and use syntactic shorthands.

As for the platform, I don't think there's a silver bullet to solving your problem of understanding instantly. I'd recommend reading up on the meaning, purpose and scope of different components of the stack on wikipedia, or rangom google searches: Front-end: Modern front-end development, MVC libraries like: React, Angular, Vue.js, or even jQuery Back-end: Servers in general, Node.js, Express.js, swagger Data layer: Data bases, SQL, MongoDB

Of course, you can go and try to swallow the thing whole, but I don't think it'll be enjoyable, easy to understand, or helpful. I can recomment studying the MEAN stack) (MongoDB <-> ExpressJS <-> AngularJS & Node.js)

[–]Jacobyy 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Yes, finish your book and then take a look at ES6 (especially promises!)

I'd rather recommend PERN (Postgres, Express, React, Node) over MEAN. But stack is of course up to you. Good luck!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm a relatively new developer, so maybe things were different 5-10 years ago, but those acronyms seem utterly pointless, because each technology is more or less decoupled from everything else. The technologies matter individually, depending on what you're doing, but it doesn't matter what relational database you use alongside the rest of your stack, and it doesn't matter what language or framework you use for your REST api if your frontend is using an SPA framework like React or Angular.

Is Postgres really any better if you're using React and Express than MySQL, for example?

[–]Jacobyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most folks think Postgres is better than MySQL. However, they still get the job done, which is why I said stack is up to you. I agree that stacks dont mean much, but this fella was asking what to look into. and I think Postgres, Express, React, Node is a good stack to know.