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> Newbies should read MDN and ignore everything else.

I think people forget how inaccessible it is for a newbie to start writing pure javascript directly from the API reference.

People need tutorials and walkthroughs, and need to build a an internal understanding of how these all work.

Frameworks help them abstract all that

> I think people forget how inaccessible it is for a newbie to start writing pure javascript directly from the API reference.

That's when you buy a book and try to do practice projects, and learn how everything works.

MDN has exactly those kinds of tutorials and walk throughs! It’s not all API documentation

Which ones? Could you link to them?

They even have courses for frameworks.

I've been using MDN for a decade, and this is a TIL!