Getting Serious

A workshop on front-end JavaScript

github.com/afeld/getting_serious

whoami

developer at Artsy
taught JS section of FERR, Spring 2013
teach Advanced JS at NYU
other life as a modern dancer

firstly

all's fair in ❤ and JS

Game Plan

jQuery basics
AJAX
Objects and the Source of Truth
Frameworks?

throughout

JS primitives
named vs. anonymous functions
dev tools

exercise

save body while editing
show status message
save title while editing
update the <title> in real-time
BONUS
- list of revision times
- ability to revert
- auto-save while typing (see _.throttle())
- ???

wrap-up

select elements and bind events
AJAX
dev tools
why frameworks become helpful

Are you new to front-end web development? Here's a secret: no one else really knows what they're doing either.
— Nicolas Gallagher (@necolas) January 17, 2013

thx.