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Learning react, took a break, feeling lost. Looking for guidance, refreshers, learning tools.
Learning react, took a break, feeling lost. Looking for guidance, refreshers, learning tools.

Back in spring of 2024 I decided I wanted to learn to code. I decided to take the fullstack course on CodeCademy, which includes react. I got through HTML, CSS, and Javascript, some git stuff, etc. I started react, then I took 9 months off. I've been back at it for about 9 months now (less frequently, as life is much busier now), and when working on react problems I'm finding that I'm really struggling with relatively basic javascript. When working on a react project for the course, I find they will ask me to implement something using javascript, and I often can't even begin. When I turn to google it feels like shooting in the dark, when I ask AI it generally doesn't help very much or it just does it for me. I went to leetcode and tried to do some pretty basic Javascript problems and it feels pretty apparent that I forgot a lot of stuff. I'm in a rather frustrating spot. Does anyone have any advice on what I should do? Is there a specific refresher course or anything like that?

TL;DR

Learned HTML, CSS, Javascript, moved into react, took a 9 month break, came back, feel like I can't do diddly-squat, specifically with the Javascript parts. Any advice on refresher courses or anything to get me back up to speed?


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Spent money on paid online courses, worked for one year with react but still struggling with architecture, performance and some of react basics.
Spent money on paid online courses, worked for one year with react but still struggling with architecture, performance and some of react basics.
Question

One year ago i bought a very expensive course for react claiming that it is the first and last course that i would need. I followed the course and applied with the instructor and everything it was of no use to me as it didn’t remove the ambiguity that i have in my head related to how react works. I’m working on a react project for more than one year but i still struggle with some of the basics and things related to architecture, performance and best practices.
I am just wondering what is the best way to master this library in a free way cause i am no more a beginner but i have some gaps.