Becoming a Good Developer: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Key Topics in JavaScript.

LEARN JAVASCRIPT BASICS

1. Introduction

   1.1 Hello World

   1.2 Variables

   1.3 Data Types

   1.4 typeof

2. Language fundamentals

   2.1 Math operators

   2.2 Increment Decrement

   2.3 console.log and Chrome DevTools

   2.4 Functions

   2.5 Function Parameters

   2.6 return statement

   2.7 if-else

   2.8 Logical Operators

   2.9 Arrays

   2.10 for Loop

   2.11 break vs continue vs return

   2.12 Equality check in JS

   2.13 Objects

   2.14 Call by reference in objects

   2.15 Scoping

   2.16 Variable shadowing

3. Document Object Model ( DOM )

   3.1 Document Object Model (DOM)

   3.2 document.querySelector

   3.3 document.querySelectorAll

   3.4 Introduction to event listeners

   3.5 More on traversing DOM

   3.6 Create elements dynamically with JavaScript

   3.7 Change HTML attributes with JavaScript

   3.8 Change CSS styles with JavaScript

4. Modern JavaScript ( ES 6 + )

   4.1 Destructuring

   4.2 Arrow functions

   4.3 New array methods

   4.4 Template literals

   4.5 Promises and fetch

ADVANCED PRACTICAL JAVASCRIPT

1. Promises

   5.1 Introduction

   5.2 .then

   5.3 .catch

   5.4 Nesting Promises

   5.5 Nesting catch

   5.6 Converting callback to promises

   5.7 Async-Await Introduction

   5.8 Error Handling

   5.9 Promise.all

   5.10 Promise.allSettled

2. Prototypal Inheritance Model

   6.1 Introduction

   6.2 getPrototypeOf

   6.3 Object.create

   6.4 setPrototypeOf

   6.5 Functional prototype chain

   6.6 delete and hasOwnProperty

3. DOM and Events

   7.1 Introduction

   7.2 What is DOM really?

   7.3 innerText vs innerHTML

   7.4 createElement

   7.5 append and prepend

   7.6 Removing elements

   7.7 addEventListener

   7.8 Event capturing and bubbling

   7.9 Third argument boolean

   7.10 removeEventListener

   7.11 event.preventDefault

4. Objects

   8.1 Equality check in JS

   8.2 sameValueZero Algorithm

   8.3 Iterating objects

   8.4 Introduction to iterators

   8.5 Example on iterators

   8.6 Objects passed by reference

   8.7 Generator functions

5. Miscellaneous

   9.1 JSON Parsing

   9.2 Strict Mode

DEEP INTO JAVASCRIPT

1. JavaScript Internals

   10.1 Execution Thread And Call Stack (Watch video)

   10.2 Execution Context

   10.3 Memory Overview and JavaScript Engine

   10.4 Async JS, Task Queue, Event Loop

ADVANCED THEORETICAL JAVASCRIPT

1. ECMAScript

   11.1 What is ECMAScript?

   11.2 ECMAScript Standards

   11.3 Support for ECMAScript Standards

2. DOM Overview

   12.1 DOM and DOM APIs

3. JS Runtime

   13.1 What is Runtime?

   13.2 What is a Runtime Engine?

   13.3 Node as a runtime

   13.4 NativeScript as a runtime

   13.5 Electron as a runtime

4. V8 Engine

   14.1 V8 introduction

   14.2 JIT compilation in JS

5. Event Loop

   15.1 Introduction to event loop

   15.2 Callstack

   15.3 Internal Web API section

   15.4 Task Queue

   15.5 Understanding Task Queue

   15.6 requestAnimationFrame Queue

   15.7 Introduction to Microtask queue

   15.8 rAF queue

Summary:

JavaScript is a scripting language that uses high-level features of the C language and other languages such as Scheme, Perl, Ruby, Python and more. It was designed by Brendan Eich, who also created the Web browser Firefox.

• Promises - what they are, how they work under the hood, how to work with them and convert legacy APIs to promises

• Async-await - Converting promises into async-await for better readability

• Prototypal inheritance model of JavaScript - how JavaScript objects really work

• DOM - Manipulating elements, event capturing and bubbling, strict mode, and JSON parsing

• Equality checks, weird side of JavaScript

• Iterators and generators

  • How thread and call stack work in JavaScript

  • What is execution context in JavaScript

  • How does JS work with memory

  • What are different kinds of JavaScript engines

  • What are some async JS features

  • Event loop working and how task queues work

  • JavaScript Fundamentals

  • ECMAScript Standard

  • Advanced theoretical JS concepts

  • What is event loop and how it works

  • Callstack and queues

  • Tricky interview questions for task and microtask queues