| How to eat an elephant? One bite at a time. JavaScript is fairly complex language and skipping a few parts in foundation can lead to not understanding the rest of it. You also mentioned regex,which is a whole separate piece to learn. Here's what I suggest: 1) Get the language basics really well.Like really well. 2) Move on to more complex concepts,again don't skim read, but do again and again and again. 3) learning from code written by a more experienced colleague may not be the best option. He may have a certain style, approach and etc. If you can't understand the code , you won't learn much from it. 4) Get yourself all ' you don't know JS' series and devour it. The books aren't easy read if you really try to understand the concepts but way better than some random guy on YouTube covering the subject in 2 min video. 5) I've recently did a private job with Regex,which I barely know. It was painful.. but it gets easier. Again, start with basics and build up, instead of trying to run complex queries and not fully understanding them. 6) Be methodical. Don't jump from one tutorial to another,from one book to another. Read one book,do all the exercises, only then move to something else. P.S: Regexing HTML is by far the worst thing a dev could get to do, that's why most would advise against it. Don't be hard on yourself. Good luck! |