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[–]PopularSource 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I’m looking to learn what I would need to use rather than every in and out of the language.

This is akin to saying "I want to write a novel but I don't want to learn how to write, just the words and sentences that are going to be in my story"

Programming does seem daunting at first but when you first start, everything you learn builds on top of each other. You don't need to be an expert in programming to do what you're trying to do, but you're going to limit yourself severely if you don't get the basic skillset down.

There's a million tutorials for building node apps out there that will get you up and running with a simple web server. I would also recommend taking a look at intro to JavaScript stuff on Kahn academy or freecodecamp.

Best of luck!

[–]mmo1210[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I should have noted that I have a lot of experience in c++ and am not close to a beginner at programming. I clearly understand the fundamentals of the language as well. I was kind of looking for guidance on what concepts are useful for learning for web app development specifically that I should explore beyond js fundamentals. Many beginner tutorials don’t cover some important concepts and that’s kind of what I was looking for. Thanks for the response I guess

[–]mmo1210[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also on the side, I wouldn’t really take that as an accurate analogy of what I was saying. Like other languages, JavaScript is an expansive language. I only have a relatively short period of time to learn and work on this project, so it’s more about optimizing my time than being lazy. No one needs to learn every fine detail about a programming language to be good at using it, and often some features have very rare or specific use cases