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Danny de Vries on September 10, 2018

JS is here to stay, without you I got trouble. To understand you here is a quick refresher on the basics of JavaScript. We all read this arti...
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Juan F Gonzalez

This. People get so caught up on the new shiny thing that they forget the very own fundamentals of the language itself. As one guy at work once told me "Whether you're and Angular or React or Vue or whatever else, that doesn't mean sht if you really don't know Actual JavaScript. Be proud of being a JavaScript developer, not a React developer"

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Danny de Vries

A lot of frameworks (especially React) requires you to have strong fundamental knowledge of vanilla JavaScript. That doesn't mean React won't give you some core programming knowledge it's just that a lot of it will be 'magic' if you skip the basics.

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Danny de Vries

Fixed it! Thanks for pointing that out.

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Mihail Malo

Awww, but I liked it!

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Danny de Vries

That would indeed be a nice topic to write about! A bit more in-depth of how the browser parses and compiles JS.