Don't learn everything. Learn what you need now. 1. Any project uses subset of the features from your programming language/web framework 2. Define what your

Don't learn everything. Learn what you need now. 1. Any project uses subset of the features from your programming language/web framework 2. Define what your app does 3. Google/Ask pros on reddit, it will give you N ways to solve this particular problem. How you can achieve X within that framework. Compare the different solutions on their strengths and weakeness. End up choosing one. Recognize rules and their priority which are employed in solution to a particular problem. 4. Whole internet is there to cheat from. You don't need to memorize, you don't need to come up things on your own. 5. Repeat. Overtime, you will have memorized many things even without trying. You can solve the new problems following pattern of previous solved problems, you won't even find yourself looking up potential solutions anymore.