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Welcome to the wonderful world of JavaScript! We hope you enjoy learning all about the language that makes up the web!

• Beginners ⭐
• Intermediate ⭐ ⭐
• Advanced ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
• Contributing to Open Source
• License
• Discussions

Beginners

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So you're started out in the JS world? You've come to the right place! Check out our links and tips below:

Course Providers (Relevant to all three skill levels)

• Udacity - some good free and paid courses
• Frontend Masters - great content from leading experts in the field
• Codecademy - good step-by-step beginner courses, with an integrated enivronment to help you code with just your browser
• w3Schools - free content and an IDE to try out code from the maintainers of the internet themselves

!Tip Also check out the HTML/CSS courses, as these will become useful when you started building apps/websites.

Books

• Kyle Simpson's You don't Know JS series - A series of books to get you started with JS, published free on GitHub - need I say more?

Intermediate

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After learning vanilla JavaScript, the next thing to learn about is frameworks. There are many, but the main four are Angular, React, Vue and Ember.

Frontend Masters (mentioned above) has a really great React course by Brain Holt that I've personally done and can recommend - find it here

Framework Websites and Official Docs

• Angular - a popular framework made by Google
• React - smaller than Angular, a popular library built at Facebook
• Vue - an alternative framework, very fast
• Ember - a framework for "ambitious developers"

Static Site Generators (SSGs)

Quickly build static sites from Markdown using a static site generator. Popular ones include Gatsby, Eleventy, Gridsome, Hugo and Jekyll.

• Gatsby - a React-based SSG, one of the most popular
• Eleventy - a general JS-based SSG
• Gridsome - a Vue- and API-based SSG

Server Side Rendering

Frameworks such as Next and Nuxt which render pages server-side before sending them to the client

• Next - a React-based framework
• Nuxt - a Vue-based framework

JAMStack Hosting Services

Quickly deploy static sites and apps

• Netlify
• Vercel
• GitHub Pages
• Firebase Hosting

Advanced

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Continue learning the tools of the trade by building full-stack web apps, and then apply for a job!

Full-Stack Development

If you want to built a full-stack web application in JavaScript, try these!

• NodeJS - For server-side JavaScript
• Go - Not strictly JavaScript, but a popular language to write APIs in

API Services

Services to help you handle data and content without having to code a backend

• Strapi
• Contentful
• Firebase
• Sanity

Helpful Job Prep Links

• Udacity - Mentioned before, has some good interview help videos
• InterviewCake - Programming interview question examples and guidance

Contributing to Open Source

To get started with Open Source, the best thing is to know a bit (even if it's the smallest bit!) of JavaScript (or any language), and to be familiar with Git. Then you can signup for GitHub, and start contributing!

• Check out MunGell's list of good projects to contribute to - here
• Or check out First Contributions

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• If you need to learn Git/GitHub, try Jessica Lord's Git It!
• Or, head to Atlassian's website for their guide
• And GitHub's docs are helpful as well - here

License & Thanks

© 2020-2021 Ed Mason & Contributors - License

Thank Yous

• Docsify for the SSG which we use for our website
• JS.org for the free domain
• npm for an awesome JavaScript package manager
• GitHub for the awesome code-hosting service
• The JS Community for just being awesome
• YOU for reading this! :-)