[Vanderson]

I recommend just starting from scratch. As a programmer at heart I find programming like playing with Legos. While I needed to understand how all the underlying parts worked, I didn't need instructions on how to build a specific larger thing.

I found MDN to indispensible in learning to make web apps. Everything from learning the basics of string/array/date/etc... objects, to modern ES6 modules.

JS/HTML/CSS - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

CSS - https://css-tricks.com/guides/

As far as actually building apps? After 20+ years of programming, I found my own light weight JS code turned into a framework over time for building apps the way I wanted to. Mostly vanilla JS.

But it didn't stay vanilla JS because too many things are hard on your own. Since everything you build you have to maintain, I found it easier to use jQuery years ago with all it's extra tools. Today? I am still removing jQuery from my code, as vanilla JS does everything jQuery did for me. (I stopped using their widgets as soon as browsers supported features by default, like a proper date picker, etc...)

So, my advice, start from scratch. learn all the pieces one at a time as you need them. This will keep you from getting overwhelmed.

Are their good resources for these from scratch online? Sure, but maybe a book is a good idea here, as it forces a more basic linear learning process if you start at the beginning. Not sure I'd take this route, but it may work for some people.

To your original question - no, I don't know of single source. But no, you do not need Node. You can create an html file and load it directly in a browser, you don't need a server to get started. But this is just step one...