The Fundamentals — JS — Syntax Podcast 162

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about the fundamentals of JavaScript - the set of core skills you should know before branching off into other frameworks, libraries, etc.

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Show Notes

3:07 - Variables + Scoping

var/let/const
Block scope
Function scope
Scope lookup

6:06 - Types

Objects
- Reference vs. copy

7:15 - Functions

Types of functions
- Anonymous vs. named
- Expressions
- Arrow functions
Methods

9:33 - DOM

Selecting
Updating
Creating

15:07 - Prototypes + this

this
Objects

20:16 - Events

Listening, callbacks
dispatchEvent
Bubbling

22:05 - Arrays

Push, pop, manipulate
Spread, rest
Map, filter, reduce
Arrays vs. objects
Mutation vs. immutable

26:25 - Flow control

Looping
If
Promises + Async + Await

29:47 - Security and accessibility

XSS and innerHTML

32:04 - Things you should know, but not necessarily master

Modules
Closures
Ajax requests

35:26 - Clean code

Clean Code Javascript

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Playing: 162: The Fundamentals — JS

Potluck × Learning Web Dev × Video Streaming × Mono Repos

HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost - Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more!

Supper Club × Next.js on AWS + Serverless with Dax Raad

New Syntax Website Brainstorm! IRL!

Web Streams Explained

Supper Club × Digital Nomad with Eric Sartorius

Fundamentals × What Makes a Website Slow?

Node in the Browser × WebContainers + NodeBox

Supper Club × Visual Coding Languages With Steve Sewell

AI and Coding with ChatGPT

Clean vs Sloppy Code

Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott

Warp Terminal × Next Gen Terminals

Logging

Supper Club × Solid.js with Ryan Carniato

Potluck × Native Web Components × JS Class Mixins × Application Secrets

Save us from Config File Hell

Supper Club × Qwik framework from Miško Hevery, the Creator of Angular

Converting JS to TypeScript

Polish and Perf

Supper Club × Rust In Action with Tim McNamara

Node.js CJS → ESM

CSS Wishlist

Supper Club × Caleb Porzio

We React to State of JS 2022

Container Queries Explained

Supper Club × Simen Svale Skogsrud and Espen Hovlandsdal from Sanity

Potluck × JS Modules × HTML Tags × Recession × Budgeting

Buy It or Build It? A Service is Not a Solution

Supper Club × Katherine Mello on Liberal Arts → Coding, Bootcamps, and Sustainability

2023 Goals × Learning and Doing

TypeScript Fundamentals × Satisfies and as const

Supper Club × Sarah Drasner on Engineering Management

Our Predictions for 2023

TypeScript Fundamentals × Type Narrowing, Guards, and Predicates

Supper Club × Polypane with Kilian Valkhof

Were We Wrong? 2022 Predictions Revisited

Desktop Apps in JS × Electron and Tauri

Supper Club × Switching into Coding and climbing the Pommade ladder with Kenneth Lyerly

Potluck × Twitter Thoughts × Business Models × Senior Developer

“Serverless” Databases

Supper Club × Remotion React Video with Jonny Burger

JavaScript in 2022

Rendering Methods Explained

Supper Club × Coding at Disney with Vu Le

Code Styles × Readable Rules and Petty Preferences

GitHub Next Projects

Supper Club × Bun with Jared Sumner

Potluck × Twitter Following × TypeScript × Playwright

Serverless Limitations

Supper Club × Anything But Coding with Wes and Scott

Responsive Design Techniques

React use() hook and Async Server Components Proposal

Supper Club × Ryan Dahl and Deno

CSS Trends Almanac for 2022 Part 2

Short Form Content with Tiktok, Reels, Shorts, Tweets

Supper Club × Open Table LIVE SHOW

Potluck × Meeting IRL × SSG vs SSR × Domain Privacy

Zod Schema Validation and Type Generation

Supper Club × Coding with ADHD with Dr. Courtney Tolinski

Spooky Web Dev Stories Part 2

Explained - Buzz Words and Concepts

Supper Club × GraphQL as an Aggregation Layer with Filipe Ferreira of Sky TV

Spooky Web Dev Stories 2022

Hydration & New Frameworks Like Qwik

Supper Club × tRPC With Alex KATT Johansson

2022 CSS Trends and Usage Web Almanac

Bookmarklets

Supper Club × Neovim, Lua, RPC and Twitch with TJ DeVries

Use The Platform!

Syntactic Sugar, Declarative and First Class Citizens? What does that even mean?

Supper Club × ORMs with Nikolas Burk from Prisma

Potluck - Using Emoji in Naming × Project Estimates × Goal Planning

How to Get Past the Blahs and Finish Your Project

Supper Club × Open Sauced With bdougie

Wes’ New Soundproof Office

WTF Is Enhance Framework?

Supper Club × Arc Browser with Hursh Agrawal

The Productivity Episode