Mind-Expanding Web Development Techniques to Emerging APIs in the Web Browser

Understanding asynchronous and functional programming deeply will increase your programming abilities drastically. The first course is part 2 of Will’s “Hard Parts” series. With this one, he’s focusing on the new asynchronous features in JavaScript.

Make sure your code is fast by diving into how the JavaScript engines and web browsers parse your code.

Functional programming is a set of tools such as map/reduce/filter, pure functions, and immutability. These tools are sure to make you a more effective developer through composing pure functions together to write more predictable and bug-free code.

State management is one of the most difficult problems in software engineering. State Machines and State Charts can be an amazing solution across a variety of environments.

When a developer (including yourself) messes up git, which inevitably happens, someone on the team needs to know how to get you out of a pinch! Learn git deeply and never lose your work again.

With Web Assembly the web browser becomes the universal compile target to run modules from any language and ship complex programs.

There’s a push with new languages that compile to JavaScript which are born of a functional nature like Elm and PureScript. In this course, we see how far we can take pure JavaScript towards more traditional functional programming.

Learning to get setup onto projects quickly and develop consistently across machines is a valuable skillset for daily productivity.

Getting lots of practice using map, reduce and filter will reveal how utterly indispensable of tools they are in your day to day code. Jafar teaches these within the context of observables, which is a construct to create streams of data in JavaScript.