1. If you are a new developer, please don't think you HAVE to make perfect decisions about your program. We all started somewhere and made mistakes and kept moving forward. Just don't worry, you will get better with time, and I bet this is how programmers we all look up to also work they learn and move forward and give up on trying to create the perfect.

2. Try to always ask yourself the question, "SHOULD I NPM INSTALL THIS LIBRARY ?" Asking this questions helps you question if you really like the way they do something, you get to ask yourself if you only want tiny a subset of the features it provides so instead you can do it yourself.

3. If you are up to it, and have some time, give Vuejs a try, Vue 2.0 with Vuex has been a delight to work on. Just take a look at https://github.com/vuejs look at the projects in there, the router, the store the boilerplate, everything is done by the same people responsible for the main library. It makes making things work together a whole lot more fun.

4. Use IRC channels dedicated to what you are learning some really great people hangout at IRC channels. Oh and reddit subs for your topic.