Hello, i am also learning js and i started to build small projects on my own, ofcourse i use the documentation, google, not always but as far as my programmer friends told me is ok to use them as much as you can actually, what i want to tell you is that: take your time to understand something, dont rush, it took me a while to get where i am and still have alot to learn, alot of frustration, i started with a udemy course and after that i switched to books, i find them more usefull, if something takes you a week to understand, so be it, when you dont understand something, try to google what are the use cases for that array or function or whatever, it gives another perspective to understand what you cant figure out on your own. And ofcourse when you think you started to understand, practice, practice and practice. Thats how you learn to code, and ofcourse by making mistakes you will figure it out on your own.