6 Skills Every JavaScript Programmer Needs to Have
Learn the 6 skills that every JavaScript programmer needs to have.
Jennifer Bland
It is very easy to pick up a programming book on JavaScript and learn the fundamentals. There is a big difference between somebody who knows the fundamentals and a very skilled JavaScript programmer.
There are 6 skills that every JavaScript programmer needs to know. Knowing these skills will set you apart from the competition but it will also provide you with a solid foundation of skills that will support you over the coming years.
Most of the skills are above and beyond what you will find in a basic introduction to JavaScript programming book. The reason is these skills are built upon knowing the foundations of the language already.
You can measure you knowledge of JavaScript by measuring how well you know these six basic skills.
Basic Skills
- Closure in JavaScript
- Hoisting
- JavaScript Instantiation Patterns
- .call vs .apply
- Tree vs Graph Data Structure
- Time Complexity
Closure in JavaScript
Read more about closure in JavaScript here.
Hoisting
Read more about hoisting here.
JavaScript Instantiation Patterns
Read more about functional and functional shared here.
Read more about prototypal and psuedo-classical here.
.call vs .apply
Read more about the differences between .call and .apply here.
Tree vs Graph Data Structure
Read more about Tree Vs Graph Data Structure here.
Time Complexity
The best JavaScript programmers understand time complexity because it impacts the performance of their application. Read more about time complexity here.
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