Thanks. This is a bit more intermediate level.

If you didn't understand something, just ask and I can point you to resources. These tools and patterns are pretty common when you get to large scale web dev, so it's worth knowing about them earlier, even if you don't use them until later on in your studies.

I'd like to eventually build something similar to steemit.com but with more stats and bots - not that hard, but will take a bit of time! Hopefully it'll serve as a guide for someone moving from basics to something more larger.