Today I claimed my certificate for JavaScript and Data Structures. I feel I’ve learnt some useful things. However, frome what I understand, JavaScript is used in web development. I had planned that once am done with this I’ll practice my new JS skills with the projects from earlier CSS projects. But it seems, I still no nothing about how to implement JS on a webpage or how it’s even helpful.
I read an article which is a guide to becoming a full stack developer. And this is what the article states one must know in JavaScript to become a full stack developer.
- Understand how to work with DOM. Also know what JSON is and how to manipulate it.
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Important language features such as functional composition, prototypal inheritance, closures, event delegation, scope, higher-order functions.
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Asynchronous control flow, promises, and callbacks.
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Learn how to properly structure your code and modularize parts of it, things like webpack, browserify, or build tools like gulp will definitely be helpful to know.
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Know how to use at least one popular framework (many programs will focus heavily on teaching you a library or framework like React or AngularJS, but in reality it’s much more important to have a deep understanding of the JavaScript language and not focus so much on framework-specific features. Once you have a good understanding of JavaScript, picking up a framework that sits on top of it won’t be too hard anyway).
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Although some may argue that you should be using this less or that it’s slowly dying, jQuery code still exists in most applications and a solid understanding of it will be helpful.
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Some knowledge on testing frameworks and why they’re important (some may even claim that this topic should be optional).
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Learn about some important new ES6 features (optional).
If I could get some help and guidance about where to go from here, I’d really appreciate it.
Thank you.
