So this time we did a bit more coding! For some of us it was all about testing. We set up a basic testing environment with Mocha and Chai and tested a method that @timhandy had written for a project. Thanks @rinse0ut for the help!
As mentioned last time, @rinse0ut is putting these and more in a terminal-based JavaScript guide, that can then easily be updated. https://github.com/rinse0ut/js101-guide
I want to focus on working on our App ('organisations-database') in the next two weeks, just hope I can find some time!
Skills Festival Recruitment event (tomorrow!)
I was going to mention this yesterday and remind people:
https://techspark.co/spark-skills-festival/
1 December 11.00-14.00 at the Watershed
Welcome to the group, @ferorus!
If you have anything to add, please do! It was great seeing you all again, also learning some more about testing was really helpful - especially the principle of starting really small and get that to work (which I still do too little I think)
So this time we did a bit more coding! For some of us it was all about testing. We set up a basic testing environment with Mocha and Chai and tested a method that @timhandy had written for a project. Thanks @rinse0ut for the help!
We did talk briefly about how complex JS development seems to have become. This article was mentioned: https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f#.78puydjbd
I think we agreed that it is really valuable to learn JavaScript as a language, not just focus on frameworks. We are doing a bit of both really. This is also an interesting article btw, from last year but still relevant I think https://medium.com/@_cmdv_/i-want-to-learn-javascript-in-2015-e96cd85ad225#.p7asf6w1t
Here again key resources we think are good: Books:
As mentioned last time, @rinse0ut is putting these and more in a terminal-based JavaScript guide, that can then easily be updated. https://github.com/rinse0ut/js101-guide
I want to focus on working on our App ('organisations-database') in the next two weeks, just hope I can find some time!
Skills Festival Recruitment event (tomorrow!) I was going to mention this yesterday and remind people: https://techspark.co/spark-skills-festival/ 1 December 11.00-14.00 at the Watershed
Welcome to the group, @ferorus!
If you have anything to add, please do! It was great seeing you all again, also learning some more about testing was really helpful - especially the principle of starting really small and get that to work (which I still do too little I think)
/cc @CodeHubOrg/js2016