🦊 Welcome to Advanced Front End 🦊

⚠️ You only need to read this post if you are in the front end group

⚛ Today’s topics

• Return to JavaScript!
• the modern JavaScript ecosystem
• ES6 features

📖 Read | 📺 Watch | 🎧 Listen

These are required readings, videos, and/or podcasts. Read, watch, or listen, and take notes.

• 📖 Modern JavaScript Explained for Dinosaurs
• 📖 State of JS 2020 Survey Results -> Read the Introduction and Features sections; the rest you can skim, although it’s all pretty interesting.
• 🎧 How to think like a Front-End Developer -> Listen to the first episode with Eric Meyer, but all the episodes are really great!
• 📺 ES6 tutorial for beginners
• 📖 React vs. Plain JavaScript -> This will be helpful background reading for our introduction to React tomorrow.
• 📺 Modern JavaScript for Django Developers

💻 Write Code

Complete at least two exercises from this list on Exercism.io JavaScript Track:

• Isogram
• Scrabble Score
• ETL
• Simple Cipher
• Hamming
• Gigasecond
• Grade School

👾 optional coding exercise

• Tower-of-babel: a command line introduction to ES6

🔖 Resources

• MDN: A Re-Introduction to JS
• JavaScript for React: A Cheat Sheet
• Make sure that Node and npm are installed on your computer -> You probably did this way back in the beginning but here’s a link to the set up instructions in case you need it.