Core Coursework
(take these in order)
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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. JavaScript: The New Hard Parts
Develop an intuitive understanding of the new features of JavaScript in ES6+: iterators, generators, promises, and async/await!
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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. Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript (with Rx.js Observables)
Learning how to build and manage asynchronous programs is perhaps the most important part of becoming an effective JavaScript programmer.- +
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There are many, many ways to write asynchronous code in JavaScript. Kyle gives you a tour from the ground up to generators, observables, and CSP. Rethinking Asynchronous JavaScript
Effective asynchronous JavaScript means knowing various different patterns and weaving them together to write readable and understandable code.- +
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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. Hardcore Functional Programming in JavaScript, v2
Learn functional programming concepts such as pure functions, currying, composition, functors, and monads, and see functional concepts in action in a real-world web app!- +
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When leading teams, you’ll need to know your tools very, very well since you are likely the one responsible for setting up and maintaining your build process. Webpack 4 Fundamentals
Learn the core concepts of Webpack 4. Start from scratch by adding Webpack with npm and build up a pipeline with popular loaders from the Webpack ecosystem!- +
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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. Git In-depth
A deep dive into git, this course is for developers who use it every day and want to learn inner workings and use advanced techniques in git.- +
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Make sure your code is fast by diving into how the JavaScript engines and web browsers parse your code. JavaScript Performance
Write more efficient JavaScript, optimize rendering performance, load assets faster with a CDN, split loading resources with Webpack and more!- +
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The entire JavaScript language can be broken down into abstract syntax trees. You can develop tooling for your team around ASTs with babel, and migrate the shape of your codebase with codemods. Code Transformation and Linting with ASTs
Learn to use Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) to make stylistic code changes, reveal logical problems, and prevent bugs from entering your codebase.- +
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Take asynchronous programming to the next level by composing streams with observables. Jafar teaches you a method that Netflix uses to build super fast software at scale. Advanced Asynchronous JavaScript
Go beyond the fundamentals of asynchronous JavaScript and use features and techniques that will help you reduce code and create smarter applications.- +
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Typed JavaScript might become standard very soon, and the leading flavor of it is TypeScript. As a senior engineer, you’ll need to keep security in mind while building software since security attacks can devastate your systems. Also, a few extra tools to add to your tool belt are electron for cross-platform desktop applications and nodebots for making your software interact with hardware / iOT.
Elective Coursework
TypeScript 3 Fundamentals, v2
TypeScript adds a powerful type system on top of your JavaScript to catch bugs before they happen and provides a superior developer experience for collaborative teams.Web Security
Get hands on attacking and defending web applications. Defend Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Man-in-the-Middle attacks, secure 3rd party assets and more!Electron Fundamentals, v2
Use Electron to build native, cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).Nodebots / Hardware
Learn to control simple hardware devices, read data from sensors, or create IoT projects with Johnny-Five library for Node.js!
