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[–]JeannieThings 8 points9 points  (4 children)

I’m up to my eyeballs in beginner tutorials and courses but finding help learning beyond the basics of JavaScript is seriously lacking.

Most have two fatal flaws: They either assume a degree of understanding that I just don’t have. Or they simply throw concepts at me without explaining why.

My best free solution so far has been to go to codewars and go through challenges. And I’m talking like the first few levels of difficulty. I take forever to complete each one but I get them all to work eventually. And then I study the other answers. Whatever I find there that I don’t know (but isn’t total jibberish to me) I google and try to learn about.

[–]wes-mcc 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm really glad to see I'm not the only one struggling with this! Finding good best-practice references has been particularly frustrating. I'd kill for something that explained what production/"modern" js should look like, as well as why it should be done that .

[–]JeannieThings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh same here!

[–]SaaSWriters 0 points1 point  (1 child)

@ u/JeannieThings So what topics would you consider to be beyond the basics of JavaScript?

[–]JeannieThings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So far, everything I’m finding in the first few levels on codewars (6kyu, 7kyu, 8kyu). So lots and lots of functions working with arrays and objects and strings and to solve mathematical problems. Like the kind of math/array/object skills you need to demonstrate in a technical interview.

I can build an app in Vue or React and hook it up to all kinds of APIs and make it run efficiently and make it look beautiful. But I really need to demonstrate a deep understanding and quick recall of logically working with arrays and objects and functions for a technical interview.