After about a year of building a few larger web apps to get my base working knowledge down I am competent and can build and understand most things. I started re

After about a year of building a few larger web apps to get my base working knowledge down I am competent and can build and understand most things. I started reading YDKJS earlier this month and I think it has been the single biggest knowledge accelerator for me. Really understanding core principles has illuminated so many gotchas I ran into over the course of the previous year. I do believe you need to have worked in JS for a while before jumping into YDKJS though. Having hit some of the idiosyncrasies of the language in the real world makes the book a much richer learning experience.