For any tutorial about regular expressions I think the second thing (beyond a very simple example regex) to show should be how to actually execute one in code. Is it that all the tutorials want to be language-agnostic? Maybe just show a javascript example and point out which part is the js function/method call and which part is the actual regex.
It's nice to be told what /[aeiou]/ means but without actually typing it in and executing it (against various inputs, not just one) it wouldn't really sink in for me.