I highly recommend to deeply understand JavaScript itself first. I personally recommend books from Dr. Axel Rauschmayer -- http://exploringjs.com http://explori

I highly recommend to deeply understand JavaScript itself first. I personally recommend books from Dr. Axel Rauschmayer -- http://exploringjs.com http://exploringjs.com After reading it you will have a strong foundation in prototypes, clojures, high-order functions, and other fundamental concepts. Also, I can recommend spending some time playing with native DOM interface -- so you will understand what is event loop, how listeners are attached/detached, what is event delegation, how to traverse DOM (and what does it cost), and all that jazz. Nowadays parts of functional programming are on the rise, so you might want to familiarize yourself with it a little bit -- https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide this is a good book, and fist 5-7 chapters are good enough to change your look at the programming. This is a foundation, and without it it will be hard to write decent code in a fast and reliable manner. After that you can pick any library (whatever is needed for the jobs around you) or any framework, and try to solve your problem in it. There is not that much a benefit from just learning libraries, frameworks and tools per se, so I recommend to move gradually, and you will understand during your path what do you need better.