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To piggy back onto this thread: I've written a fair amount of severside JavaScript, read the Eloquent JS book, the You Don't Know JS series (which I heartily re
by vector_spaces 7y ago
To piggy back onto this thread: I've written a fair amount of severside JavaScript, read the Eloquent JS book, the You Don't Know JS series (which I heartily recommend to the parent), and feel I have a pretty good handle on the modern language itself.
How does one take this knowledge and learn the browser APIs (in particular, best practices around those APIs) plus to navigate the frontend ecosystem in general without getting overwhelmed? Obviously you learn the APIs by building stuff, which I do. I can and do write frontend code, but always with the feeling that I've never learned this stuff properly.
I know there are tutorials aplenty on this stuff -- other than MDN, is there anything authoritative, comprehensive, and deep? Like, the SICP or TAOP of frontend programming?
- userbinator 7y agois there anything authoritative, comprehensive, and deep? I would recommend the official spec. It won't be an easy read, unless you're already used to reading standardese, but there's nothing more authoritative than that.
- pintxo 7y agoNot a tutorial or authoritative resource of any kind, but remember you can always open your browser of choice (on the desktop), open the developer tools and start fiddling with the browser APIs interactively, on any page you like.