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Sophie Muchiri
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JS Craftsmanship Series: The Path to Pro-Level JavaScript

My JavaScript Journey From Confusion to Clarity

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about JavaScript, it’s that it can be hellishly confusing.

I remember the frustration, staring at error messages that made no sense, refreshing my browser hoping my code would magically fix itself, and wondering if I’d ever truly understand this language. Tutorials made it look easy, but in reality? JavaScript felt unpredictable, chaotic, and sometimes just plain unfair.

But I refused to quit. Every bug, every broken script, and every long debugging session taught me something. I learned not just to write JavaScript, but to write it in a way that’s clean, scalable, and maintainable the kind of code that future me (or any developer) would actually understand.

That’s why I’m starting this series. Not as an expert, but as someone who has fought through the confusion and wants to help others do the same. If you've ever felt like JavaScript is out to get you, trust me I get it. But together, we’re going to make sense of it, step by step.

So, let’s build better JavaScript, one lesson at a time.

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