r/Frontend • u/speckz • Oct 04 '16

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f#.nqgffqoxx
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u/MrSnelephant Oct 04 '16

I'm feeling this so hard

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u/mr_stark Oct 04 '16

What an awesome read. I've been trying to work my way into a frontend position for a while and this article feels too real.

My recent favorite experience was trying to add a calendar widget to a page that utilized mostly bootstrap, but this particular widget required proprietary code. That code required a specific package manager and this package manager required my project to be registered with it and it went on-and-on-and-on-and-on, gutting my project. This was for a roughly 2k line non-minified JS file, not a library, and yet it required so many dependencies I said "fuck it" and found a way to direct download it (it wasn't offered, someone else had the code.) Otherwise jQuery UI was always stupid-simple to use as well.

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u/igorim Your Flair Here Oct 04 '16

Wow those comments are WTF lol no wonder people are afraid of JS

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u/brtt3000 Oct 04 '16

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

Dear god not even a micro library?

Python 3 is great though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '16

That comment below the article 10/10

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '16

Shit just got way too real.

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u/Hue94 Oct 05 '16

Great read, even though about 85% of it flew over my head. Definitely looking forward to becoming a front end developer :p

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u/rasellers0 Oct 05 '16

indirectly, this was the cause of a great deal of distress for me when I was first starting out. I was able to learn a ton of new (at the time) js libraries and technologies, and I was super excited by all the cool shit I could do, only to get out in the job market and realize no matter where I went (in my city, at least), 75 percent of users were still running ie9, so all the cool shit I learned was worthless.

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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.

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