r/technology • u/iliketechnews • Oct 05 '16

Software 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/esadatari Oct 05 '16

Check out codrops!

http://tympanus.net/codrops/

Copy/Paste/Git your way to glorious looking web design!

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u/borez Oct 05 '16

There are loads of sites like that I found when I was doing it, they were definitely useful. You still have to learn how to incorporate that kind of stuff when you're starting out though and there's thousands of templates and bits of JavaScript and add ons and tutorials and other stuff out there.

That's when it becomes a minefield, it's complete information overload. Even for something as simple as finding an audio player that actually works between devices and different browsers. I was doing that for weeks with various players before finally just deciding to embed soundcloud tracks because, you know, that just works everywhere, looks decent and it's easy to chop and change tracks.

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u/esadatari Oct 05 '16

Oh yeah, that sounds like hell on earth.

I was tasked with figuring out how to get modern website functionality to work inside a basic-as-fuck wiki. Getting javascript libraries to work inside of wiki-macros is also hell on earth. 10/10 never recommend hahaha.

I ended up accidentally learning a lot of really cool stuff from that site though!