[Styn]

I've heard quite a bit a few people mentioning this. Do you have any resources you could refer me to? Or is it something you have to learn as you go?

[archerx]

I've been doing web dev for at least 15 years now so I kind of grew up with the technologies. The thing that helped me the most was building stuff from scratch in my personal projects to learn what is actually happening behind the scenes and see if there is a better way of doing it.

The problem with frameworks/cms/etc is they are trying to solve everybody's problem but aren't really optimized to solve your specific problem if you have one.