I used to think that if my JavaScript ran without errors, I had done my job. If the feature shipped, the console stayed quiet, and the tests passed, I’d mentally roll for loot and move on. Victory secured. XP gained. On to the next quest. But somewhere between shipping features and revisiting old projects, I started noticing something uncomfortable: working code is not the same thing as readable code. And…
For a long time, I treated learning like an endless dungeon crawl. No rests. No pauses. Just door after door, room after room, always pushing forward. If something was labeled advanced, I assumed that’s where I should be heading next. Anything else felt like backtracking – or worse, like I was wasting time. So I skipped ahead. Advanced JavaScript. Advanced frameworks. Advanced patterns. If the topic sounded difficult, prestigious, or…