What’s the best way to use AI as a JavaScript tutor without weakening your learning?

Use AI cautiously until you know enough JavaScript to judge whether its answers are correct. It can summarize documentation or explain a concept, but it often gives confident answers that are incomplete or wrong. You should still rely heavily on official documentation and your own testing rather than treating AI as an authority.

A good rule is to ask questions such as “What does this feature do?”, “How should I approach this problem?”, or “Can you give feedback on my code?” Avoid asking for a finished solution. Try the problem yourself first, use documentation such as MDN, and write small tests so you can verify what you learn. Finding and fixing your own bugs is a major part of learning to program.

The most useful approach is to tell the AI not to provide the final code. Paste your attempt and ask it to explain what is going wrong, identify the relevant concept, or give you a hint about where to investigate. For topics like promises or closures, you can ask for an analogy followed by a small exercise to check whether you understood it. Also spend regular time coding without AI or autocomplete, because working from documentation and memory builds stronger JavaScript and debugging skills before you move on to React Native.