Rediscovering JavaScript: A Deep Dive into Modern Features

Einleitung

JavaScript is one of the most ubiquitous languages, highly flexible, very powerful, and yet, one of the least understood. Being a dynamically typed and weakly typed language, it poses several challenges for developers. Learning the pitfalls and the strength of the language can help us to make really good use of this most widely used languages.

Programm

In this workshop we will start by learning about some gotcha, things to avoid, ways to prevent some common errors. Then we will swiftly move into learning about prototypal inheritance, the semantical differences between regular functions and the arrow functions, and along the way learn about the newer syntax and facilities that are now part of newer versions of JavaScript.

Kursziel

To get a good understanding of the modern features of JavaScript and how to apply those for application development.

Adressaten

Programmers, architects, technical leads, and technical managers interested in guiding their team towards better practices when they make use of functional style of programming.

Voraussetzungen

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Infrastruktur

Laptop with the suggested set of software already installed:

• Recent version of Node.js
• Git client
• Your favorite IDE