Getting Comfortable With Javascript

created_at: 2018-04-11 17:08:05

Part 1: Getting StartedGetting comfortable with HTML and CSS is no easy task.
These tasks are underrated in the community and taken for granted.Be it that
you love writing good clean and minimal markup with accessibility concerns
addressed or you have a single div and feel like you can conquer the world in
your CSS file.Javascript is a natural next step for anyone who spends time
writing HTML and CSS. But, depending on which way you come at JS. It can be so
overwhelming.There is jQuery, React, Angular, Node, Vue and countless other
libraries and frameworks that people are talking about and writing tutorials
for.So where do you start? What is the best place to get your feet wet? Do you
start with jQuery but you just read that people don't use jQuery anymore?In
this series, we are going to look at a few key concepts that are going to help
you in your JavaScript journey.When I started to take the leap into
javascript, I wanted to know how to do everything ever possible. The wonderful
thing about JavaScript is that it is such a wide and giant world that it could
be overwhelming to come in without much experience.But, what worked for me and
what we are going to break down is a few common things that happen in a lot of
projects and use that as a launching off point. Once, we nail down these
concepts. We will be off to the races.We are going to explain Javascript vs
jQuery, what is the console and events.Vanilla vs JqueryJquery is a framework
that makes writing JavaScript just a whole lot simpler. It still is incredibly
popular and widely used on many websites out there. jQuery makes manipulating
your document such a breeze and if you know CSS the syntax is very easy to
grasp and to get rolling.Recent upgrades to JavaScript has made it much easier
to learn vanilla JS out of the gate. jQuery used to be the best way to learn
JavaScript because the syntax was so much streamlined.In this series we will
use examples of vanilla and jQuery. You might feel more comfortable with one
set of syntax over an another. The goal is just to get you to writing some
scripts.With jQuery you will have to load an external file on your site every
time you want your code to run. Something like this. With vanilla js your
browser can run that code natively.Part 2: Coming SoonWe will discuss the
console and click events.