Resources for new JavaScript Software Engineers (2020)
Embedded Nature
Posted on October 4, 2020
Web Communities and Articles
Dev.to is a developer community with a wide variety of experience levels. Learn new tips and tricks, find resources, and discuss concepts about your favorite programming languages.
Medium is a great place for many articles but here are my favorite topics they offer for JavaScript developers
Junior Developer Central offers coding tutorials for people looking to become a Junior Developer.
Managing your code
Docs
As a new web developer the MDN Web docs may become your favorite website. It offers development documentation for web standards and Mozilla projects
Head over to the references page to get hands on explanations to the world of JavaScript with compiled examples.
W3 school has very good online tutorials for beginners, it is free with tons of examples.
javaScript Tutorial helps you learn JavaScript programming language from scratch quickly and effectively.
Asking for Help
Stack overflow is a developer community where you can find answers to computer science concepts, or find solutions to debugging problems you face.
Stack Exchange Software Engineering
Discord is your place to talk and hangout, servers have been used by gamers and YouTubers but there are discord servers for software engineers
When you are dealing with issues related to packages you imported, you may find GitHub issues to be helpful
Learning Fundamentals
Further your basic understanding of JS
The basics of JS programming starts with expressions and Variables
Intro Functions / Variables, Control Flow, Intermediate Functions
Execute JS Locally, POJO
Callbacks, Scope, JS: Asynchronous Functions
Using Node.js
npm
I also created an intro video for web developers to learn about this.
Git Commands
JS Recursion
Web Browser Storage
Browser Dev Tools
Tips & Tricks
This article by Eric Elliott is a nice collection of JS interview questions to test your understanding of JS
Tania Rascia provides a fundamental understanding of event loops, callbacks, promises and async/await in JS
When you get into CSS this website is a great resource
I hope you found this helpful, if you have any questions comment below or reach out to me in my discord server.
Posted on October 4, 2020
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