I really appreciated two long videos walking a viewer through making a “todo list” app on the MEAN stack and again with React (“in a little less fancy form”)
Both videos also provide a strong introduction of some basic ESCMA6.
The “Super” MEAN tutorial at 1:53 minutes long, covers a heck of a lot about NodeJS, Express, Angular, and at least how to get started with Mongo. He also does some introduction to Sass and Bootstrap in the process.
He takes a “lets make this work and this is what I’ve heard about what I’m using” type of approach. Walking through a “real”(at least plausible) app introduces the technologies in ways very close to how a new programmer might apply them on a small side-project.
The clearer the “hook” I have to “what something is for” the easier it is for me to tuck away the details.
I link the React tutorial below because I think it is more unique, but perhaps his MEAN stack is even better.
He talks quite quickly so you get a lot of bang per minute in the already long tutorials. I think it took me over 10 hours to make it through typing every line of code and experimenting till I understood with the 1 hour and 53 minute MEAN stack tutorial.