I highly recommend this road as well. Three exercises along the lines of the parent that I found particularly valuable: 1. Compare VanillaJS TodoMVC to your f

I highly recommend this road as well. Three exercises along the lines of the parent that I found particularly valuable: 1. Compare VanillaJS TodoMVC to your framework of choice http://todomvc.com/ http://todomvc.com/ https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/examples/vanillajs https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/examples/va... What does the framework buy you? Is the framework-powered code easier to read? Easier to understand for a newcomer to the code base? 2. Read every line of Effective Javascript (it's short and eminently practical) and write out every code example. http://www.amazon.com/Effective-JavaScript-Specific-Software-Development/dp/0321812182/ http://www.amazon.com/Effective-JavaScript-Specific-Software... There are about a dozen small errors in the code in the book, see if you can find them. 3. Read substack's alternative Javascript build flow: http://substack.net/task_automation_with_npm_run http://substack.net/task_automation_with_npm_run Think about the possibilities and limitations. (I personally love his approach at the beginning of projects when I could care less about fiddling with gulp and want to get into exploring the guts of a problem)