In my personal experience the best way to learn how the stack works is to use the stack even if you don't know how it all works yet. You'll pick up pieces here

In my personal experience the best way to learn how the stack works is to use the stack even if you don't know how it all works yet. You'll pick up pieces here and there and you'll eventually have your "aha!" moment and everything falls into place. If you're a complete beginner it will take you a couple months to understand the basic concepts and practices I'd say, but you learn exponentially from there. Just think of a project you want to do, no matter how complicated it seems, and do it. You'll be googling things every other minute but that's fine, that's how you learn this stuff. Books are good to get an overall perspective, but things change very quickly on the web, so the web is the best way to learn and stay updated.