Learning Day
Today is a learning day. I’m spending the day with my nose in a book or headphones in my ears listening to a course or learning.
Frontend Masters: Professional JS: Features your should know
- Ecmascript releases a new version every year, the version is usually the year name but also carries a whole number (like ES11 is a thing but it also has a year)
- JS is usually transpiled to a version that works for more users. Common transpilers: babel, typescript
- ES6 brought
- Class syntax
- Block scoped variables (let/const)
- ES modules
- Arrow functions
- Promises
- ES Modules
- Prior to modules everything was in the same global context all of the time (variables and functions)
Inspiration
- https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/2024-gift-guide/#strangeness : Something about this whole vibe does it for me. I love the red stripe on the left rail
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.43388/ Take along a book this summer