The Nature of JavaScript :: Docs

This workshop is aimed at developers who are proficient in other curly bracket languages and are interested to understand the current JavaScript ecosystem such as:

• The fundamental philosophies of the platforms and the community
• The concepts of the language that are unique to JavaScript
• How the language has evolved and continues to evolve
• The common tools for building and testing

We cover a lot of information throughout the day and the short amount of time we have together prevents us from going too deep in any particular area. The day is designed to provide a launch point for more inquiry and learning. We'll take a broad thin slice of the language and its ecosystem that will hopefully generate an excitement to learn more afterwards.

1. The JavaScript Landscape

2. Why JavaScript?

3. Why Not JavaScript?

4. Why APIs?

5. Why Not APIs?

6. Further Reading

7. Surviving in the Wild

8. When is JavaScript... not JavaScript?

9. Function level scope

10. Closures

11. this

12. The object prototype

13. Further Reading

14. Ecosystem

15. npm

16. Bower

17. Gulp - for transpiling, running tests, code analysis, etc

18. Browserify

19. Testing

20. Async JavaScript

21. Callbacks

22. Promises

23. async, await

24. Use npm request package

25. Backend

26. Node.js

27. Express

28. Feathers

29. Storage

30. MongoDB

31. Mongoose

32. DB-backed REST endpoints