I’ve been running into that, JS is tough at times, you have to do a arrow or no arrow function, once you create a function, to implement something you made into it... or replug what you made up above? Things like Nodes or Attributes at times .... I mess up what’s being referenced and it messes it up. Allot, ALLOT of tutorials will just create objects, but don’t use ANYTHING in a proper real world example.
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I would def second Jared Daines on You Don't Know JS.
And I wish I could say arrow functions didn't still trip me up from time to time!
I know that feeling, it was hard for me as well to learn javascript since I came from a strong typed language (c#). Some answer to your questions are... I usually use arrow functions all the times, don't really remember why but there's a reason for it, I think it was the way javascript was compiled to binary in the browser it will first set those normal function to allow be used everywhere and will consume time if you only have non-arrow functions. As recomendations I give you is to not learn javascript and learn typescript, if you come from a strong typed language is easier and if you are learning this as your first language is easy to understand oop with types and prevents a lot of bugs, typescript is something like a compilter, you write your code and in the terminal just type tsc and boom it returns a .js file. And if you really learn you should not learn javascript alone but with a framework like react, angular vue or svelte, I personally like angular since it easy to learn, a lot of people say is react but if you're learning react you have to learn redux and that is the worst thing to learn, especially with typescript.
I’ve been using React and I like it, it has helped me learn JavaScript allot. I haven’t focused on Redux allot.
I thinks that React is one of the hardest UI framework to learn, because you have to understand some advance feature to use it (like this keyword).
Now with hooks it's a little easier but still harder than VueJs or Angular.
(But when you know it, it's awersome)
I don't think React is harder than Angular or Vue, but since it only handles the UI part the hardest it to learn all this third party libraries like routing, forms, reactivity... and kind of complicates everything. But If you're learning for now react use TypeScript, I think I can't stretch this enough but TypeScript is the best Microsoft did. and For React try to always use hooks, best thing Facebook did as well :v
Also for real life examples you should try to do thing for you own. I learn Angular by making a love page for my girlfriend where she could add love memories, I use a quote of the day API for romantic quotes that changes everyday and use Firebase as back-end. You could do something like that or maybe a portfolio... When you're doing this you'll realize all the thing needed to create a web app and make it work.
Yea I get messed up on this.state or useState and where to implement that. Define rly when your in the, smaller class info? Where you have card, index... but the card is the class name or you have to make a different name
Thank you! I already have a idea of a “snippets” list, to create snippets of a card or page, that I can then copy with just a “onClick”, but when I try and copy the Class, it dosnt work. Idk what to use for copying the text/syntax in a designated area. So, it’s kinda like a To Do app, except for compiled code and you can “on copy” it
Javascript "it's easy to learn" because you can create much with few things. Just with functions and dictionaries (object).
But mastering it, understanding 'this' keyword, 'closures'... are hard to do.
So start small.
P.S: To have a real world example, you can look at projects on github or gitlab ;)
P.S 2: I have understand some advance parts of javascript by learning another language (Haskell, c#...), it could be a solution.
Bushnell's Law says the best video games are easy to learn, but hard to master 😁
Hi Bret,
I understand your frustrations. I started learning Javascript a year ago, and I still encounter some confusing features and concepts at times. I found that doing algorithms in JS through leetcode and other sites helped me with the syntax.
I also think that learning React "too fast" can also lead to some confusion. At least, that's what happened to me.
Some things I found helpful was building a project with just Javascript, CSS, and HTML to see how those different languages interacted. Then, I built a React project building on those skills.
Actually, one of the most confusing things right now is figuring out how to incorporate CSS into my projects. I recently discovered styled-components and that's helped me learn CSS in a specific, React component structure way.
I imagine most people who say JavaScript is easy to learn, are saying so because for them it seemed easy to learn. That's not very scientific.
There's also a ton of information for newcomers to JavaScript, so even if the language itself isn't as easy as some other language, finding help is easy. So that can be a contributing factor.
In my view, as someone who knows JavaScript, but doesn't use it daily, it's an easy language to learn the basics of, but very difficult to get good at using.
github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS has some good free resources about the fundamentals of how and why Javascript works the way it does.
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