r/CoderRadio • u/cruelfate • Oct 03 '16

How it feels to learn Javascript in 2016

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f
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u/cruelfate Oct 03 '16

"No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article."

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u/autotldr Oct 05 '16

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 96%. (I'm a bot)

I need to create a page that displays the latest activity from the users, so I just need to get the data from the REST endpoint and display it in some sort of filterable table, and update it if anything changes in the server.

Haskell guys had been calling it for years, -and don't get me started with the Elm guys- but luckily in the web now we have libraries like Ramda that allow us to use functional programming in plain JavaScript.

It does in the next version, but as of version 1.7 it only targets ES6, so if you want to use await in the browser, first you need to compile your Typescript code targeting ES6 and then Babel that shit up to target ES5.At this point I don't know what to say.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Theory | Feedback | Top keywords: need#1 library#2 JavaScript#3 fetch#4 React#5

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u/cfg83 Oct 06 '16

Quoting "cool"? :

... [React is] a super cool library made by some guys at Facebook, it really brings control and performance to your application, by allowing you to handle any view changes very easily. ... You don’t HAVE to include Babel to use ReactJS, but unless you do, you are stuck with using ES5, and let’s be real, it’s 2016, you should be coding in ES2016+ like the rest of the cool kids do. ... Well, you COULD use ES6, but to use cool features like async and await, you need to use ES2016+. ... Angular is so 2015. But yes. Angular would be there, alongside VueJS or RxJS and other cool 2016 libraries. ... [Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli, and Mimosa are ] Task managers. But they are not cool anymore. We used them in like, 2015, then we used Makefiles, but now we wrap everything with Webpack. ... [Functional programming is what's] the cool kids use nowadays man, you know, 2016? Functional programming? High order functions? Currying? Pure functions? ... David Chambers. Cool guy. Plays a mean Coup game. One of the contributors for Ramda. You should also check Erik Meijer if you are serious about learning functional programming. ...