I could have written this myself. I did a lot of web development before JavaScript exploded and have since done mostly back end work. Every time I hype myself u

I could have written this myself. I did a lot of web development before JavaScript exploded and have since done mostly back end work. Every time I hype myself up to learn any of this stuff I feel like I'm chasing my tail. "Wait, I can't learn this until I understand that, but that requires some knowledge of that other thing which is best understood in the context of..." It's exhausting. I have written code professionally in a dozen languages or more on projects ranging in size and scope, but I have never felt so lost as when trying to learn the labryinth that is the JavaScript ecosystem.