Calling all JavaScript enthusiasts! Ready to level up?

Join us in this ultimate JavaScript guide where we'll cover essential topics like types, variables, objects, functions, operators, expressions, statements, scopes, arrays, loops, and conditionals. Discover the core of JavaScript as we explore variable declaration, object creation, modifying properties, accessing nested objects, and more. Unleash the power of functions with different syntaxes and properties. Gain insights into operators, expressions, and statements, and unravel the mysteries of JavaScript scopes. Dive into arrays, manipulate them with ease, and become a loop master with various loop types. Plus, we'll demystify conditionals like if statements and the handy ternary operator. Prepare to level up your JavaScript skills with this comprehensive and friendly guide!

Contents and Topics

In this comprehensive series, we cover a range of essential JavaScript topics, including:

1. Types and Variables:

• Understanding variable types and their declaration

• Exploring dynamic typing in JavaScript

1. Objects:

• Creating objects and accessing their properties

• Modifying and deleting object properties

• Accessing properties of nested objects

• Understanding global objects like Window and Global

1. Methods:

• Exploring functions and their syntax

• Differences between function declaration and function expression

• Reusing parameter names and understanding their properties

1. Operators:

• Differentiating between unary and binary operators

• Exploring arithmetic, comparison, and logical operators

• Understanding operator precedence and associativity

1. Expressions and Statements:

• Differentiating between expressions and statements

• Exploring expression statements and their usage

1. Scopes:

• Understanding global and local scopes

• Exploring scope chain and function scope

• Differences between block scope and function scope

• Introduction to undeclared variables and strict mode

1. Arrays:

• Understanding array structure and its differences from objects

• Modifying and adding elements to an array

• Exploring common array methods for manipulation

1. Loops:

• Exploring various loop types such as for, while, do-while, for...in, and for...of

• Understanding the differences between for...in and for...of loops

1. Conditionals:

• Using if, if-else, and switch statements

• Utilizing the ternary operator for concise conditionals

This series serves as a comprehensive introduction to these JavaScript topics, providing a solid foundation for further learning and development.

But why Javascript, it's a scripting language 🥹

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Each of these pros highlights a different advantage of using JavaScript in full-stack development.

Some reports and surveys that provide insights into JavaScript's popularity and developer outlook:

• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022

• State of Javascript 2022

• GitHub Ovtoverse

• JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2022

• Redmonk Developer Ranking June 2022 (*quarterly reports)

Take a look at any of these to get an idea of the language ecosystem, it ranks #1 consistently across the board (Typescript supersedes it in a few cases, which is a superset of this language and both comply with the ECMAScript programming language standards) and is widely used across the software engineering cycle, Frontend, Backend, Utilities you name it, Javascript gets it done! maybe not efficiently in some cases*

In summary, this is a great first language to pick up and hit the road running. Nothing stops us from branching out and learning other languages to add to our toolkits as developers.

Now let's list out some cons of Javascript to get a well-rounded view.

It's important to note that these cons should be considered in the context of your specific use case and the tools and practices available to mitigate them. JavaScript's cons are not necessarily prohibitive, but understanding them can help you make informed decisions and address potential challenges effectively.

That's a short introduction, now we can proceed to Javascript Jumpstart 1 - Types & Variables