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JavaScript

Posted by Henning Bang Halvorsen
Henning Bang Halvorsen
16,239 Points

Javascript and it's many frameworks!

Hi!

I have an idea for an app, and I have found many frameworks and such that let's you "easily" create cross-platform apps! Many of these frameworks are based on HTML, CSS and JS. The HTML and CSS parts are no problem, but once I try to use the scripts of the frameworks they always build on another framework and then I have to learn that first and so on...

What I would like to know is:

In which order should I learn the different JS frameworks?

I am planning on taking the 'Full stack Javascript' track, but I do know quite a bit of how programming languages work, so it would be nice to skip the very basic stuff.

Wow, this became a rant!

Happily accepting any opinions!

  • Henning

2 Answers

Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 Points
Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 Points
  • First you need to have an idea of every part of JavaScript and how it works. Including ES6 because all frameworks are updating to use ES6 (And I don't mean knowing about loops, functions, etc, I mean knowing how the this keyword, the execution context, hoisting and that kind of stuff work).
  • Learn React or Angular.
  • Learn Node.js and Express.
Henning Bang Halvorsen
Henning Bang Halvorsen
16,239 Points

Thank you for the quick answer! I think I'll go JS (with this ES6) -> Angular -> Node.js -> Ionic/Cordova or something! I'll start with the track then!

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

When I joined Treehouse, I already had basic programming knowledge. What I did is I watched all the basic video 2x fast and then I'd slow down the video if there's something I've never learned before :) That's what I'd do! :smile:

So, if I were you I'd not skip the videos/challenges/quizzes, because there might be stuff important in there :smile: Just watch the videos 2x fast and slow down when there's important stuff! :)

Also, if you learn in the Full-Stack javaScript track, the courses are sorted by level from least-greatest (still, I recommend doing all the courses!), so the framework stuff would be all sorted :)

~Alex

Henning Bang Halvorsen
Henning Bang Halvorsen
16,239 Points

Thanks, Alex!

I might do just that!

Peace!