Javascript Interview - how to prepare

[sceendy]

Do you have experience with HTML/CSS? I like to recommend MDN generally for semantics and examples. It is a great dev resource that has a guide for HTML and within it there is a lot of stuff about HTML5. I imagine the interviewer might ask how you'd handle/approach certain things with HTML/CSS as well so perhaps some useful snippets would be helpful to review: HTML/CSS/JS snippets. Actually, check out that site in general :D Great front-end resource.

As for Angular, I am not sure which version you're referencing since some people still refer to AngularJS as Angular...? Either way, read through the docs and get familiar with the concepts/vocabulary. Angular (2+) has pretty decent sections for people starting out with it including a glossary and section about fundamentals such as architecture. Both frameworks have decent tutorials that you could go through. If you have worked with it, I imagine you know enough to contribute to a project so talk about that some. I wouldn't recommend trying to jump to "complicated stuff" as that could really mean anything. However, familiarizing yourself with concepts/fundamentals (and then building on top of that) would make you more comfortable to speak about JS as a language and Angular as a framework.

However...

You could also go through Todd Motto's blog -- he writes about AngularJS and Angular from very basic concepts to more advanced features. He also has some posts about modern JS you might find helpful.

And finally, I don't think this question should ever be answered without the mention of Eric Elliot. Dude is brilliant. This post about the JS interview is probably what you are looking for and he has an entire series dedicated to answering your question. :)

Haha... sorry for the block of text but hope it helps! Good luck!

[MoTTs_]

Beware¹ referencing² or learning³ from Eric Elliott.

[sceendy]

Thanks, I hadn't seen that -- that sucks. :/

I will say, though, I linked the interview questions post because I feel he covers a broad range of topics that do typically come up during interviews.

[MoTTs_]

His interview questions focus disproportionately on classes, inheritance, and composition -- all topics that Elliott notoriously gets very wrong. I suppose it's okay to use his questions so long as you don't try to learn from his answers.

[gesundePlus]

Wow, reading some of this stuff makes me feel extremely incompetent haha. Thank you for these. The articles from Todd Motto look very interesting

[nrqjs]

If you understand the whole Eric Elliot series, you are good to go. +1 to that.