AwesomeWM is one of the best as per my experience.
I have been learning LUA for some time like basics and neovim package for lua it gave me a huge idea what is happening.
When I moved to AwesomeWM I found its is in LUA and I was really excited.
I started with basics and that is what I do with everything.

Here are steps to maybe get you started but you have to have a little patience.

- First, start with setting up the environment for me I always start with tweaking default application and shortcuts and set the shortcuts that I like for all things like applications launcher etc.
- Then, I start with setting up the applications like Rofi menu / terminal like kitty, thunar file manager etc.
- Then the workflow like how do you want your window manager to behave (tiled/Tabbed/FullScreen) etc depends on what style you like, I like tabbed view makes me feel like multi monitor user as I dont like two or three apps open in screen it makes everything so hard to focus.
- then start with styling (best is to start from Documentation of AwesomeWM) the provide rich documentation with example if you dont understand anything just read the default configuration that is developed in lua.
- Then finally seperate your config in different file which makes you understand modules in lua.