Hear, hear. I'm learning exactly those (hard) lessons right now, as a (very) junior developer. I'd written a couple of CRUD-with-embellishments apps, using Dja

Hear, hear. I'm learning exactly those (hard) lessons right now, as a (very) junior developer. I'd written a couple of CRUD-with-embellishments apps, using Django and Meteor. Now I'm staring down the length of my first non-framework JS app and learning huge amounts about software architecture, design, workflow, etc. It's intimidating, frustrating, and occasionally paralysing, but I can track my growth as a developer, rather then just tracking my app's growth.