Exactly. My experience with JS (which is entering non-trivial amounts) has been this: Either get a boilerplate, generator or spend frustrating afternoons confi

Exactly. My experience with JS (which is entering non-trivial amounts) has been this: Either get a boilerplate, generator or spend frustrating afternoons configuring to the start line. Then once you start work spend hours reading docs to figure out what all that stuff you installed actually does. OR Build from scratch, build the simple stuff, then when your brain says 'hey someone must of done this', look for a library and plug it in. Then at least you understand a general idea of what you're installing. An over simplification, of course, but building rudimentary routers, event managers, mvc structures etc helped me immensely.