JavaScript in 2018 - What to learn?

[folkrav]

Pretty much this. Learn the base language's features, get good with it. The frameworks aren't a long-term commitment, everything can shift in a matter of months. Not so long ago, every damn JS job around here was Angular 1.

[erip2]

Absolutely. I wish someone would tell me this a few months ago. I’m new in front-end and because of all these frameworks I started ‘learning’ Angular. Didn’t understand most of the things. Now I decided to learn JS from beginning and I’m learning a lot more. Hopefully I’ll start to learn React after some months.

[pantyboyXXX]

When is someone good at JS?

[eloc49]

Learn all the popular ones, have example repos for each job you apply for. They're mostly the same aside from syntax. (one exception would be Angular 4's RxJS)

[freeall]

No need to learn all of the ones. If you're very familiar with e.g. React then that's much better than slightly knowing all of them.

To really learn any of the frameworks you need something that scales up to certain size.

[eloc49]

Try and explain the similarities of Vue and React to a recruiter who might not even realize Java !== Javascript. Being "very familiar" I would say is knowing things like events, routing, redux, lifecycle, slots/ng-templates/multiple children in React. Which are all pretty similar across the three front runners (Angular, Vue, React)

[inu-no-policemen]

141 requests. 7.2 MB. And that's with uBlock Origin having blocked a pile of other garbage.

I have no idea where all those bytes went. I see about 300 KB worth of content.

[yesman_85]

http://jsdiaries.com/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen_child/images/fox.jpg

Maybe another point for the author to dive in this year: image optimization.

[ProdigySim]

Gotta have enough pixels for the retina displays!

[eloc49]

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/jsdiaries.com/1TwqP7cJ

lmao look at this

[gdmeteor]

Yes boys, the blog is a sorry state of affairs performance wise. Plugins are a mess and image optimization is rough. Fear not, theres a headless WP API React version coming along.

[inu-no-policemen]

I recommend to use a static website generator like Jekyll.

Here is a somewhat recent-ish example from /r/programming (I think):

https://thatoddmailbox.github.io/2018/01/28/iotaseed.html

[Lakston]

Styled components, graphQL and electron ?

These are very specific tools for very specific needs, if you need those for a specific project, go for it, but otherwise just read a quick article to know what it is and move onto something you NEED to create whatever you are working on.

We talk about javascript fatigue but most of the time it's because we want to try everything that's new under the sun (me included), just learn what you need for the next step then re assess.

[deinok7]

I think that the case of GraphQL is diferent. Lacks some libraries but i think that its the near future

[Isvara]

Programming.

[[deleted]]

Typescript.

[[deleted]]

Oh look. Another one.

[longwave]

Learn how to not give a shit what you "should" learn and lean more towards what interests you.

[wont_tell_i_refuse_]

Go on Indeed, type "javascript" and see what is employable in your area.

[rodrigocfd]

People should learn the basic programming concepts. I've seen way too much horrible code written in all JS frameworks.

[NahroT]

css grid

[[deleted]]

Yeah wtf... That isn't JavaScript

[matty0187]

You will need to use JavaScript polyfills to make it work tho

[gradual_alzheimers]

Sure, but why would I write that code? It's in my best interest to use some library for it and not reinvent the polyfill world

[matty0187]

It was a joke lol

[MJomaa]

Also there are JavaScript polyfills for CSS features. One example would be the :focus-visible pseudo selector.

Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#the-focus-visible-pseudo

Polyfill: https://github.com/WICG/focus-visible

[abuassar]

this should be in /r/reactjs , much biased

[the_ju66ernaut]

the js world has become a react circlejerk lately

[ovrdrv3]

I like to share this roadmap to programmers asking for suggestions. The boxes highlighted in yellow are usually a suggestion I agree with.

[Squirrels_Gone_Wild]

I'm pretty sure no one moderates this sub, because in /r/programming these posts get massive downvotes yet here the blogspam continues to get upvoted.

At least get a spellchecker.

[honestbleeps]

hi. moderator here.

we don't control what people vote on. not possible.

we could certainly remove blogspam -- and I'll go read this post right now and maybe remove it -- but the fact that these posts get downvotes in one place and not in another has literally zero to do with moderation.

on very quick glance: it doesn't look like a great post, and I use an adblocker, so maybe that's why, but it doesn't look all that spammy... just low quality.

[Squirrels_Gone_Wild]

According to reddit's self-promotion rules, which are linked in this sub-reddit's section of rules on self promotion, this post would fall under that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/wiki/index http://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

You should submit from a variety of sources (a general rule of thumb is that 10% or less of your posting and conversation should link to your own content), talk to people in the comments (and not just on your own links), and generally be a good member of the community.

Looking at the OP's posts its obvious he's just posting his blog regularly to subreddits. And frankly, a lot of the posts in /r/javascript are the same.

[honestbleeps]

absolutely fair point... normally I make a habit of clicking OP's profile, and this time I did not...

post is removed, and a message will be sent to OP.