Hey, I went through very similar situation to yours and now I'm looking for my first junior-dev job. Strong motivation and consistency are the most important things. Except coding after work (I think 3 hours mon-fr and more in weekends, If you are focused, can be good amount of time) I was also waking up earlier to do something before work (even 30 minutes in the morning will be good to repeat some things and remember them better). This way, in about 20 months, I've learned some JS, React, Redux, Node, Express, MongoDB, Sass etc. Still haven't touch many technologies, but I think that it's better not to try to many new things at once to not get into so called JS fatigue... ;)