The first thing is to understand the overall fundamentals of general programming i.e. variables, loops and all that sweet stuff

Understand the concept on a general basis, not factoring any programming language.

The next thing to do is pick your language of choice and then learn how those general concepts are implemented in your language of choice

The next thing to do is decide what kind of developer you want to be and don't be drawn into the cacophony of numerous frameworks.

Decide on if you want to be frontend, backend or any other kind of dev, then pick a good framework which has a good documentation, a lot of online tutorials and resources and a strong community.

The next thing is become a master in that framework, go after depth instead of breadth. Dig deep into it.

Secret - Doing this, you can easily pick up another framework and another and then you would be a more holistic developer in that sector and if you decide you are interested in something else, just repeat

Congrats @root, wish you the best on the new job. Protest the cavity search until they buy you dinner

It's not necessarily depression, you just need to take some time and chill a bit but you need to clear your workload, your reputation is key.

First, get in touch with your client and inform them timelines have changed.

Don't code, just look at your projects and break them into smaller bits.

Once you have the smaller chunks set a 25 mins period for one task and do just that, once you're done with that, rest.

If you feel slightly motivated, push for one more but if really excited, don't try to ride it till the end, do some more work and then rest.

Your mental levels are depleted and they need to be replenished and rest is the only cure for that. Also, look at other things, learn something new or just go have fun, live life.

Hope you get out of it, it happened to me in the past and the solution was practically doing other things and not being in the office but working out of a co-working space. The energy from others fired me up and i used my experience to help others that got stuck, that made me feel better.

@magicMirror That's not the case, i have a very well structured folder setup for my apps and i haven't stepped out of the current project folder.

Could shed more light on what you implied

@Root I was working on a different branch, this is the branch i have the issue on. The integrity of my app is intact on the other branches

@dudeking lol

@vnwonah Lagos

@vnwonah Hey, you're in Lagos. Lol

Best of luck with that

Depends on the task for me and how i need to feel and i pick on track and put it on repeat. My songs range falls within gospel, afro hip-hop, indie soul, classical like Mozart, Beethoven and just plain old white noise

What i have found out works is to absolutely look at your diet. Exercises are great but the real heavy hitter in all of it is your diet

When you go Mac, you can't go back. Found this out like 4 years ago, every time i touch a windows system, feels like I'm working on a torture.

@heyheni Have you considered pivoting into a Technical Product Manager, your ability to come up with creative ideas and your tech knowledge might take you quite far

I used to shy away from this early on in my career but the official documentation on any framework is usually a good place to start and build strength about the framework.

Tutorials usually show different approaches and that can be frustrating, though not wrong it can often be based on the style of the approach used by the tutorial author

However, if web development as a whole is the challenge, the first step is to break it all into bits and pieces and learn each part e.g. say you want to understand authentication; focus on that, learn the approaches, concepts, and principles.

Don't forget the place of micro-projects, they really help in boosting your confidence.

Happens to all of us, lol. Every developer might need therapy later in life but for now, i think you're good

Mention me when you're done, would be happy to give my input

I think AdonisJs(Laravel like MVC framework for NodeJS) has really great documentation.

I hated NodeJS because of ExpressJS until i met AdonisJS 💓💓💓