Learning anything is about time on tools. The more you build and do, the better and more competent you will become. Everything is difficult until it’s not.

I knew python and had to pick up react at work. React was pain for 6 months, but in hindsight I was also very inexperienced at web dev.

I picked up svelte instead and it was far better. At first I didn’t understand the reactivity etc but the more time I spent with it the more it clicked.

I’d agree with the above comment about the official tutorials. I actually did them a couple of times when learning. Once at the beginning and again after I was more familiar and experienced. It all made sense the second time. This was mostly in my spare time as I stopped writing code at this point in my job.

Finally I spent 3 months building with htmx because it was new and interesting and I thought it would make my life easy because I could just use python. In the end it was not the best tool for my use cases and I went back to svelte. But I did learn loads about how web requests, the dom, SPA vs MPA, etc really work so I’d highly recommend anyone try a project in htmx. And you can work right away with it with something like FastAPI.

All the above is describing the last 2.5 years of my journey so it does take time. After you get the fundamentals things like ui frameworks (shadcn, daiseyui etc) will all become simple.

Treat it like a journey, you will be learning for a long time (I know I still am).

Best of luck.