JSfoundation

This course provides a solid JavaScript foundation that you can use to build sites and applications for the web.
Many developers today need to do frontend work and relate to JavaScript in some way. In fact, JavaScript is getting more and more important in our day-to-day work. Many people approach web programming without a solid foundation in the language. This course explains the language in depth, how JavaScript works and what parts of it are important.
Using a real-world application as a concrete case, we will go through modern application creation with JavaScript from the ground up. We focus not only on the browser, but also on building simple applications with NodeJS. Doing that brings much-needed advantages of a modern development, such as testing, linting, module management, build systems, and file watching.

Day 1

Syntax crash course
Case study: a simple app
jQuery and other libraries
Functions (and why they matter)
Functional programming
Node.js
Asynchrony - callbacks and promises

Day 2

Common patterns
API writing
Objects
JavaScript's OLOO (Objects Linking to Other Objects) mentality
A developer environment: bundling, testing, minification, "transpilation"
Harnessing the browser dev tools
Case study: Models and views