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You seem to believe you need to teach a beginner every small detail from the start. You don't. You don't need to teach npm, yarn, pnpm, esm, cjs, transpilers, e
by postalrat 4y ago
You seem to believe you need to teach a beginner every small detail from the start. You don't. You don't need to teach npm, yarn, pnpm, esm, cjs, transpilers, execution models, webpack, vite, snowpack. None of it.
Start with: console.log('hello')
- trinovantes 4y agoBy that logic, any language is fine. The problem is how do you follow up to keep them interested after some simple stdin/stdout exercises? Trying to accomplish anything interesting beyond solving leetcode questions in JS requires going into the npm ecosystem.