Over the past 4-5 years, I had actually worked through this neat repo which teaches the basics of Node.
I came to realize a couple of things:
- Like many previous tutorials, without 'time on task' and some context based on experience, I was sort of just 'following along' and/or going through the motions but not really understanding. To quote a Mystikal lyric, "What is the actual f!@#king meaning?"
- The solutions shown in the repo are a bit 'out of date.' It just means that, for example, they stick exclusively to callback functions instead of applying promises when possible.
Well, I just re-worked through this again for fun 🤓 just yesterday, and it was the first time that I actually felt that it actually made sense, coming from a much more confident and modern JS perspective.
Over the next posts in this series, I am going to share my solutions for the problems posed. Along the way, we'll pick up several 'modern' JS approaches including new Promise and destructuring and async-await.
To get started, if you haven't already, as per the directions on the repo mentioned 👆🏽, you should proceed with: npm install -g learnyounode.
In the first post, we'll break down how learnyounode works and tackle the first challenge.
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