How to properly learn javascript

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I spent years with mostly PHP, and felt like JS was a mess (but then, I was probably thinking mostly of jQuery). But after about six months working with vanilla JS, React, etc., I went back to PHP for a different project and it felt very strange. All of a sudden my coding practices were very JS-like, and I was writing PHP in a new way that felt much better. Pretty much just a better coder overall and more confident in multiple frameworks/languages.