I initially created this js-trials git repo to train myself on javascript. This was more convenient wherever I was coding. Everything being generic, this is a great opportunity to share my understanding with others. Feel free to pick up whatever you find interresting. Any comment is welcome.
First thing to care about is the development environment.
I like node (which provides npm), git (which provides bash on Windows), and working with a great source code editor. I much prefer when they are configured the same way everywhere.
When I started with node.js, I thought I would be autonomous to script anything on server side after knowing how to:
- Run
system commandsand process their output, - Read and Write
files on the file system, and - Fetch
data from any URL.
PS: Dealing with a database is another important knowledge too*.
The most difficult for me was to make it asynchronous.
See my first trials at async. Start with async-spawn.js, then async-file.js, then async-fetch.js.
*I did not document anything about databases yet. I would first start with mongo because it stores the elements in json, and plug it with mongoose in javascript.
Later I learned react and its ecosystem. There's no tuto for this yet. My incremental approach is available at app-react-redux.
On the server side, I'm looking to continue to provide fast responses to many concurrent requests while dealing with resource-intensive tasks as you can see at cpu-intensive-tasks.
Best way to share some knowledge with others is to document a step-by-step approach to various aspects of javascript.
People can learn from very simple things to more complex ones.
When learning something new, I may put my code under studies, then I may write a better documented tuto.
Enjoy your journey here :-).