Why to JavaScript in 2018?

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Saugat Acharya → Senior Software Engineer → Open Source Enthusiast https://github.com/mesaugat

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What is this talk about? → Why to Frontend? → What the Frontend? → How to Frontend?

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1. Why?

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Of which only 12% are Frontend Developers

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2. What?

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Practice of writing producing HTML, CSS and JavaScript for a website.

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3. How?

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Start Small /* CSS */ body { background-color: lightblue; } // JavaScript console.log('Hello, World!');

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Learn the Fundamentals → ES6 → Closures → Functions → Callbacks → Promises → Modules → and more ...

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Choose a Framework

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Tooling

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Head Start → create-react-app → angular-cli → vue-cli

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Concepts → Virtual DOM → JSX → State → Template → Data Binding → Code Splitting → ...

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It's Not Easy ! Be patient ...

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Don't Get On The Hype Train

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Thank You

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“Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” — Jeff Atwood