I’m in the same boat as you. I’ve got experience with nodejs backend. I have done a little bit of html/css/javascript on the front end too but I’ve done way more backend. There is a lot of what appears to be specialized code specific to discourse or ruby or a very opinionated coding style, even though I know javascript, the discourse code base looks intimidating and complex to me. I’m thinking strongly of trying to run my own local a.i. that I can feed the whole code base into and then ask it questions for things I want to do. Other than that, all I can do is read existing code, plugins, etc and try to make the best sense of it that I can. If you’re interested in sharing knowledge or trying to learn together, I’m open to it 
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