Learning JavaScript with WordPress REST API

talk given at WordCampNL 2016, article + HTML slides here:
http://tomhermans.com/blog/learning-javascript-wp-rest-api-talk-wordcamp-nl

TLDR:
With the advent of the WordPress REST API many opportunities open up regarding building a site. And more importantly, decoupling your frontend from WordPress itself, making it a store or a platform for your data to communicate with with various tools, but mainly JavaScript. Consider this the tl;dr.

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1. T alk by t omher mans.com @t omher mans
2. HOWDY, I'M www.t omher mans.com @t omher mans
3. DESIGNER & DEVELOPER w or ked for
4. Yelo P lay T elenet's digit al TV w eb p lat for m
5. WHAT IS WORDPRESS ? IS IT A CMS OR .. ?
6. APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE s et of st andar diz ed w ays w hich gov er n how ot her p ieces of s oftw ar e can t alk t o a pr ogr am and how it w ill r esp ond
7. WP API’S XML-RPC & FRIENDS (ATOM..) X ML r emot e pr ocedur e call mobile app ADMIN-AJAX lightw eight r out ing lay er r esp onds w/ JSON RSS op en st andar d sy ndicat ion for mat
8. THE WORDPRESS REST API
9. RESTFUL API'S T w itt er I nst agr am F acebook W or d P r ess.com S tr ip e, .. and many many mor e
10. REST : REPRESENTATIONAL STATE TRANSFER commu nicat e v ia HTTP s ame HTTP v er bs (GET , POST , PUT , DELETE , et c.) like w eb br ows ers us e t o r etr iev e w eb p ages and t o s end dat a t o r emot e s erv ers.
11. HTTP TO CRUD CREA TE dat a : POST READ dat a : GET UPDA TE dat a : PUT DELETE dat a : DELETE
12. LEARN JAVASCRIPT DEEPLY, YOU MUST ‑ Yo da. or w as it M att ?
13. YOU DON'T LEARN TO WALK BY FOLLOWING RULES. YOU LEARN BY DOING, AND BY FALLING OVER. ‑ Ri ch ar d Br anson
14. JAVASCRIPTISSEXY.COM
15. MVC M odel ‑ V iew ‑ C ontr oller
16. DEMO TIME fr ont end management v ia AJA X A ngu lar 1 WIP A ngu lar 2 REST API POC
17. t his is a st art, obv ious ly differ ent p ar adigm, differ ent minds et, differ ent us eage, differ ent t ooling
18. USEFUL RESOURCES GOOGLE.COM: HOWTO LEARN JAVASCRIPT
19. USEFUL RESOURCES J os h P ollock R oy S iv an W es B os T odd M ott o J ohn P ap a M at M arqu is ‑ J av a S cr ipt for W ebdes igners WP ‑API (v2) E gghead.io (JS tuts)
20. WANNA TALK ? HIT ME UP LATER www.t omher mans.com @t omher mans