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JavaScript Fundamentals You Need to Know Before Learning React
Recorded:
February 23, 2023
Released:
March 8, 2023
Episode Number:
237
Do you know enough JavaScript to move onto something else like React, or Svelte? How do you know if you'll be ready? This week, Matt and Mike discuss the vanilla JavaScript fundamentals you need to know before learning new tooling like React, or Svelte. We hope that this episode helps clear the air for any junior developers wondering if they should start the next step of their JavaScript learning journey, or if they still have more vanilla JS to learn.
Why is it important to learn JavaScript before a framework?
Programming concepts learned in vanilla JS apply to frameworks like React, Svelte, and Vue
Debugging a framework is arguably more difficult when you don't know vanilla JS
It's important to remember that frameworks are built on top of JS
What do you need to know before jumping in?
Variables - const, let, var
Conditional statements - if/else - switch - ternary - optional chaining - conditionals for display and not display are major parts of frameworks
Scoping
Looping - while - for
Arrays - for each - map - reduce - filter - sort
Async/await, promises, fetch - Getting, waiting for, and propagating data is a big part of why we use frameworks
Template Literals - Frameworks like React can benefit a lot from combining strings, functions and variables in the same line - especially for templating
