emacs-from-scratch VS .emacs.d

I am building an emacs config, I have got a list and plan of what I want, but I am not sure where I start building, are their any guides or docs on how to build a config from scratch, explainations of concepts like lazy loading, how the different package managers work and what they do, and all the built in emacs concepts and features I have gone though this tutorial, but it doesn't explain anything and doesn't show how to customise anything.

Check out the YouTube channel System Crafters, he has a multipart series "Emacs From Scratch" where he goes over setting up his Emacs installation and setup, and other videos showing how you can do all sorts of things.

There are guides and even video series that cover a lot of beginner stuff. masteringemacs.org has a lot of great articles, and the System Crafters YouTube channel has a lot of great looking stuff.

Hey, I recently set up mu4e following SystemCrafter's guide and was pleased to find everything worked upon setup.

This Youtube Channel has a lot of emacs development, even there's a course to learn emacs lisp.

Depending on what you are looking for, System Crafters has a lot of Emacs content.

A bit older http://emacsrocks.com One of my favourite episodes being http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html the ending is just awesome.

System Crafters yt channel is much newer and also amazing https://youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters

The second one is a little bit more complicated. For a number of packages I kind of abuse use-package/straight to separate out setup of different files/modes contained within the same package into their own use-package statement. Good example of this is my setup for helm. ) For example, after the normal (use-package helm …) statement, I have the below which configures helm-files related stuff, which comes from helm-for-files.el within the helm package:

siren-tab-bar.el

If anyone is curious of the hacky solution I used to have in my config, here is the comment where I initially replaced it with an earlier version of yank-indent.

I’d like to throw my personal vanilla config into the hat as a point of reference/starting point/inspiration: https://github.com/jimeh/.emacs.d

Oldest commit: Aug 27, 2011

My config uses/has use-package, straight.el, lsp, company, magit, tree-sitter, doom-themes, doom-modeline, vertico, marginalia, consult, treemacs, undo-fu, GitHub Copilot, projectile, vterm, smartparens, yasnippet, diff-hl, and more.

I did a similar thing with yaml-mode highlight queries in my config before the highlights were merged in. You can see the relevant commit in my config here: https://github.com/jimeh/.emacs.d/commit/ebbdab36fb2a3d635d591cc3179b8f4ed9a476d0

I'm two months in (without any programming experience) and I've gone through various re-writes (from a literate .org init to a modular setup akin to Emacs Prelude or Siren configurations. (See: https://github.com/jimeh/.emacs.d)