As noted in an earlier post, there’s a ton of material to learn about JavaScript, and my approach to mastering it is first to rely on experienced, talented developers to point me in the right direction. In learning React.js, I quickly encountered references to “awesome React” as a resource, and I concur, it is awesome — 700 links to React resources, divided into 72 categories. However, while it is...
As I’ve been applying for JavaScript dev jobs, I’ve been gradually tuning my LinkedIn page and resume, and last week I bent my business card toward contributing to the correct first impression — that I’m a developer the hiring manager wants to meet. To this end, I wanted to put some information on the business card that doesn’t normally reside there, things like the languages I know, GitHub repos...
As noted in my last post, there’s a ton of material to learn about JavaScript, and my approach to mastering it is first to rely on experienced, talented developers to point me in the right direction. This list — like the last one — is a re-presentation, this time of 113 lightly commented links to ECMAScript 6 tools that enable you to use ES6 today. The list has been...
There is a ton of learning material about JavaScript on the web, and as a developer looking to achieve “mastery” in JavaScript, AngularJS and famo.us, I have buried myself under the weight of it, not always able to discern difficult-to-grasp concepts from inept explanations written by, well, parrots. (Who are these parrots? Facile developers who quickly picked up some framework — I’m looking at you, Angular — and who...
The arc describing the change in my work as a developer is bending furiously into JavaScript as I pack away the semantic technologies I have wielded since the dawn of XML. I’ve encountered a wicked amount of content on JavaScript, and this site is one way I’m keeping track of everything I run across. And, hopefully, others retracing the same path will find value in the resources identified here...