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 How to be JavaScript developer?

JavaScript is becoming dominating all other programming languages. To be told truth it’s not easy to become developer, especially JavaScript developer. If you have decided to become JavaScript developer than be ready to know about various frameworks, tools that are based on JavaScript. At first, you must have good knowledge in following:

• JavaScript
• ECMAScript(ES)

You must learn about various JavaScript syntax and know how to use them. In JavaScript, JQuery and DOM manipulation are the most essential. And after these you need to learn to use ECMAScript 6. ES6 is eventual upgradation and the present face of the JavaScript.

 After being proficient in these you can go for frameworks.

Angular

Angular is the open source, efficient and one of the most powerful front end web framework based on JavaScript. It is used to develop Single Page Application (SPA). It extends HTML into application and perform data binding by interpreting the attributes. It might look complicated at first but it’s worth it. There are various sites which provide good tutorials for learning it.

React

React is not a framework rather it is a JavaScript library for designing better user interface. It is used in developing single page and mobile application. It can be better learned by trying it out. It is a declarative, component based and write once and use anywhere type JavaScript. You can find its tutorial easily.

Node.js

Node.js is the open source, server side JavaScript run time environment and works on cross platform. It contains properties like packages, threading, forming of loops which is present in languages like JAVA. This framework is capable of driving asynchronous input/output with its event driven architecture. You can get documentation of Node.js in this and can find various tutorials in web.

Vue.js

 Vue.js is a progressive, open-source framework based on JavaScript for high-end single page application and user interface (UI). You will know easily that its components are similar to React and template similar to Angular.

Backbone

For beginner it is good start as many projects are done using it and those projects in production and works perfectly. It follows MVC format. It will be worth for learning and mastering it. It is also a JavaScript library with RESTful JSON interface and focuses on every server side function must pass through API to reduce inner functionality complexity by writing less code.

Meteor

Meteor is open source isomorphic JavaScript web framework. It is written in Node.js. It produces cross platform code and used for rapid prototyping. It can be used in both frontend and backed.

You don’t need to learn all these rather pick one framework and master it. All can be related after mastering one of above framework. And choose you would like to work as a Backend (Node.js, meteor) developer or Frontend (Angular, React, Vue.js, Backbone, Ember, Mithril ) developer.

Few tools which are using by JavaScript developer and you are going to master them while learning JavaScript framework, which are:

CLI

CLI also known as Command Line user Interface. You should have basic knowledge of using command line of the system you are using. Most of the command are similar if you are using Linux or MacOS.

Editors

It is not compulsion to use big IDE for using JavaScript. You can use any editors like subline text, Geany, Atom or Visual Studio Code. But my personal recommendation is Visual Studio Code.

Debugging

I know you are thinking “we cannot debug without IDE so JavaScript is hard” but not you can use Chrome DevTools, it best of all.

Package Management

Package management is done for managing dependencies written by other and need to work in your project correctly. We can use package manager npm or yarn.

Build Systems

Build is the last but not least thing you will do. It makes you code mush smaller, more optimized and hard to read. You need some time to master each build system tools but can use one of them.

Grunt is the most popular and oldest which is little slower than other.

Gulp is similar to Grunt but more versatile and this tool build asynchronously so it’s faster and safe nowadays.

Webpack is the complex and very powerful tool for build. It not easy to learn and master so I recommend to use official documentation . It will be easy after understanding.

 

There are other frameworks based on JavaScript which I haven’t mentioned above but these are enough to start learning about JavaScript.

At last, there are many communities in social sites and maybe in your town so following in those communities will be best idea for learning and deep understanding.
HAPPY CODDING!!!