My usual tip for getting into something that seems incomprehensible: Just start building stuff in it. Start with Hello World or something else ridiculously sim

My usual tip for getting into something that seems incomprehensible: Just start building stuff in it. Start with Hello World or something else ridiculously simple. If it doesn't work, then debug and fix it until it does. If it works, then add some features until it stops working, then fix it. Repeat until it does something useful. Find some demo apps and examine them to give you some direction on how to do things. Work through any tutorials you find. Angular 1 seems like a good starting place to me. It has some complexities, but it's one file to use and is all bare Javascript. You can at least get something simple working before you have to figure out how to set up build pipelines for Typescript or JSX or something. You can even do some useful stuff in it with no Javascript at all - the default form validation stuff is pretty nice.