[Waterluvian]

This is exactly what happened to me and I'm glad I did it. My intro to programming was a nightmare jquery app. Then a slightly better Backbone app with too many Globals. Then an over engineered Sails app. And now a collection of React + Redux apps, multiple years old, each with increasing levels of maintainability.

I'm hesitant to see new programmers avoiding a "learn the hard way" project. Without it, there's so much they might never grok.