Went from zero to deployed in 6 months of weekend study, the difference was just picking one framework and sticking with it

I spent the first 3 months jumping between React Vue and Svelte tutorials getting nowhere, then forced myself to finish one Django project and suddenly everything clicked - anyone else find the hard part is just committing to a single path?

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tessaperry17d ago

Oh man, same exact thing happened to me. I wasted weeks trying out different frameworks until I just built one full project with React and it was like a light switch flipped.

brooke_jones17d ago

Light switch flipped" is exactly the right way to put it. I spent like a month just reading docs and watching tutorials, thinking I needed to find the "perfect" setup. But once I forced myself to just build something messy with React hooks and a simple API call, everything clicked. It's like you don't actually learn until you're staring at a broken component and have to fix it yourself.

laura_black16d ago

And once you ship that messy first project, suddenly everything else starts making way more sense too.