After hacking away at Drupal and then WP, adopting Django as my go-to backend helped me immensely early on. I don't do anything with PHP anymore. I'll also say

After hacking away at Drupal and then WP, adopting Django as my go-to backend helped me immensely early on. I don't do anything with PHP anymore. I'll also say that backend + html + css will take you surprisingly far. JS will be much easier to deal with after you feel at least competent with those basics.