Ben
Ben is a lifelong Nintendo fan who likes to build websites, and make video games. He buys way too much Lego.
WordPress and Games
Javascript is simple, or at least it used to be. If you’ve done any programming, and you know how to use Google then you can program in javascript. Of course, to make it more powerful we have to complicate things.
We make extensions to Javascript, like ES6, that then need to be ‘transpiled’ to turn them back into regular javascript that the browser can understand.
And we build libraries like React and Vue that make it ‘simpler’ to build complex applications. But actually they’re quite complicated to learn. They make working with Javascript very different, you need to think about things in a different way.
For designers like myself this is a lot of new concepts to learn, the vast array of options can be overwhelming so you can do what I do and ignore it. I work for myself, on my own projects, so I don’t really need to learn it.
But then WordPress is moving heavily towards React, so maybe I should?
I keep saying I will learn React but I haven’t had a need so I haven’t done anything about it. With Gutenberg getting ever nearer I feel I should actually start learning, and so I’ve been collecting tutorials for learning React. Obviously I haven’t been following them, but I will do one day!
Before learning React we should probably get the fundamentals right – so here’s some awesome javascript tutorials to get you started!
If you know of any good, preferably free, resources then please do let me know in the comments or on Twitter.
Too much? Too little? I like Scrimba stuff cuz of the Imba interactivity.
https://scrimba.com/g/greactchatkit
Thanks Kel – that looks really good. I shall add it to the list!
Just been looking at Scrimba. I hadn’t heard of it at all before but it looks like a really nice platform. Thanks again for the tip!