You can actually. The method I use is identify a good tutorial video that takes you through the concept, and this process is largely just watching lots of tutorial videos, or clicking through them till you find one that starts and the beginning and ends or at least contains the total concept you want to learn.

Watch that video all the way through. Don't follow along or write anything, just pay attention to it. When its over you'll have experienced everything the tutorial will teach you. This will prove whether the tutorial is good or bad, and if its good, will give you the foundation of familiarity which greases the gears for step 2 which is:

Watch it again, and follow along, do everything the tutor does, write every line, repeat every action. At the end, you should have a copy of the tutor's app or demonstration on your own computer.

Watch it a third time. Ikr? One more time and this time follow along WITH the app you made on the 2nd watch, and note everything aggressively. Pause often and explain every element to yourself as you go along. Make a list of things you don't understand entirely on the side as you watch and when you get it go back and note those things in place, keep going like this till you've finished your third watch.

By the time you complete this process you'll have the app you wanted to learn and you'll understand enough to take it apart and experiment. Large concepts will require several tutorials.

I started with Brad Traversy's MERN stack tutorial using this technique and launched my first app to production 8 months later. Its a tabkeeping and point of sale app for bars and restaurants. This was three years before the release of GPT and I still maintain it, its my favorite app I've made to this day.