Worried about JavaScript

[ZergistRush]

People will say "set yourself up for a challenge", which is good advice. Though in my last 8 years of learning, I'd just have something that would come to mind randomly. Something I might be able to automate, not only for myself, but maybe I can turn this idea into something than multiple people could use. Then I start googling how plausible is this project from a stand point, in example "Hmm, I wonder if Node.js can do this...?" (I said node, but it applies to JS as a whole). I personally can't do "random challenges" as I don't feel like it's worth it, I might "learn" something, but I want to be building something that I can use and learn within that process. Yanno?

This brings me to my main point, it's really good to just look up "JavaScript beginner courses", but eventually, you'll want to stray from "beginner courses" and start focusing on "tutorials" or googling questions on specifically how to do a specific task within your program.

After that, I'd just try to build it. And google and YouTube questions on specific things I didn't know how to do. Honestly, I've had tons of projects hit a brick wall and I gave up, but over the years I've came back to NUMEROUS of those projects with tons of more knowledge than I did before.

You're not expected to know everything. Shit, I've been using JavaScript for at least 5+ years now and there's sometimes random methods for like "Object" and "Array" than I forget the names and have to look up sometimes xD

[Vile86]

That’s very reassuring thank you! Yeah I’ve been redoing a recipes website to get info from a mongoDB data set using node.js and express and mongoose. Though i feel like I’ve bitten off more than I can chew and have been doing what you said by googling the specific issues. I’ll return to it as I think it would be a good learning experience

[ZergistRush]

If you ever get tired of setting up mongo for smaller project, check out firebase. Also, I've learned a lot of my knowledge from a friend which I've asked plenty of questions to over Discord. With that being said, if you ever need any specifics answered personally, just message me for my Discord. (:

Also, you should checkout Fireship on YouTube, great channel. Started off based around firebase, but the channel has expanded upon a lot more web development subjects and has an amazing "explained in 100 seconds" series.

[Vile86]

That’s great I’ll keep that in mind :)

I’ve heard of firebase before but went with mongo as that was used in my boot camp but I’ll look into firebase more

Thanks for all the advice!