README.md

JavaScript Notes

My notes on the JavaScript programming language.

JavaScript Documentation and Tutorials

• Eloquent JavaScript
• JavaScript for Cats
• The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
• Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Proramming
• Speaking JavaScript
• MDN
• W3Schools
• Geeksforgeeks
• Modern JS Cheatsheet
• Exploring ES6
• BDD in JavaScript: Getting Started with Cucumber and Gherkin
• Building Simple REST API with Express.js and MySQL
• Build Node.js Rest APIs with Express & MySQL

JavaScript Runtimes

• Node.js
• Deno: a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

Videos

• Douglas Crockford Lectures on JavaScript

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The following is based on Kamran Ahmed's front end web developer roadmap.

• syntax and basic constructs
• DOM manipulation
• fetch API/AJAX (XHR)
• ES6+ & modular JS

Understand these concepts:

• hoisting
• event bubbling
• scope prototype
• shadow DOM
• strict
• how browsers work
• DNS
• HTTP

Package managers

• npm
• yarn

Build Tools

• task runners
  • npm scripts
  • gulp
• module bundlers
  • Webpack
  • Parcel
  • Rollup
• linters & formatters
  • Prettier
  • ESLint
  • JSHint
  • JSLint
  • JSCS, which has merged with ESLint

Pick a Javascript framework

• know the pros & cons of single page applications
• Express
• React.js
• Angular
  • RxJS
  • ngrx
• Vue.js
  • Vuex

CSS in JS

• styled components
• CSS modules
• Emotion
• Radium

Testing front end web apps

• Jest, Enzyme, & Cypress can fulfill all your testing needs
• Mocha
• Chai
• Ava
• Karma
• Jasmine
• Protractor

Type Checkers

• TypeScript (reduces bugs, very useful)
• Flow

Server Side Rendering

• React.js
  • Next.js
  • After.js
• Angular
  • Univeral
• Vue.js
  • Nuxt.js

Static Site Generators

• GatsbyJS

Desktop Applications

• Electron
• Proton Native
• Carlo

Mobile Applications

• React Native
• NativeScript

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License

Released as open source software under the terms of the ISC License.