To prepare for #Adapt #development at work in the coming weeks, today I dove into beginner #elearning courses on #Backbone, #jQuery and #JavaScript templating. I'm frazzled. It's a big step going from #CSS and basic #JS to #MVCs...
Send me your thoughts, tips and all the reassuring things, yes?
@tychi
Thanks for the tips! In case you're interested: https://github.com/adaptlearning 👍
@syntax Very cool mission; looking forward to watching it progress, thanks for sharing!
@tychi
And I'm looking forward to a time when I have enough JavaScript knowledge to be able to contribute to the codebase! I think I need to get a fat book on the subject and carry it around with me everywhere. Any you'd recommend?
@syntax I haven't read it, but this book is probably the one I've seen recommended both online and in real life: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/1st-ed/README.md
There was also this thread on HN today for a book called Deep JavaScript and the comments have more recommendations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552180
The best way to learn will be getting hands on, so maybe even trying to tackle small tasks for Adapt could both help you grow and push the project forward.
@tychi Thanks, and yes I recently learnt of You Don't Know JS. I watched a talk by the author yesterday. For now I've just ordered a HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery book bundle and will continue to practise the basics in the browser console etc. before moving on to the more advanced stuff.
@syntax I'm not sure what #Adapt is, but I've been doing web dev for a decade, went from jQuery -> backbone (+Marionette) -> React (+Redux), so I can probably field questions you've got.
My overall take, learn them to see what problems they solve and how they solve them. Then take that knowledge and use it to boost your own vanilla JavaScript expertise. Reverse engineering is a more sustainable skill than jumping to the always newer framework.
In 2020, I'd also spend my efforts with Svelte.