My intro to Javascript

Fabi Mendoza
Nov 7 · 2 min read

As I said on my last blog I was very excited to learn Javascript that I want to write how my first week went to. So far it has been very interesting at the same time kind of hard working on a new language that I had no clue how it works. This first that I noticed is we write more coding on a single page compares to Ruby. Well, at least I can say they are somewhat similar but definitely more chances to make for a single request. For example, if we want to add pictures, comments or likes, we use a function in order to post it or make it work. But, before all these, we use JSON (which is a connection between the server and the browser) to grab information we need to manipulate or add.

As far of now, the question is do I enjoy more working with Ruby or Javascript…?I think I can say I’m getting more interested on learning Javascript than any other language (just for now). I see that we can do so much using it for a website that I can totally say its very useful to create a website. So here is an schema of how we code using Javascript.

Next week we going to reinforce our knowledge by working on group projects before to start React. So, React is:

a JavaScript library created by Facebook

a User Interface (UI) library

a tool for building UI components

In other words, we can use react to make changes to our applications without reloading the page. Its a faster and simple way to manipulate data and safe to use only for Javascript. I can’t wait to start working on this and finally see what it could do for my future projects. Since this is the last chapter of the program before our final project its somewhat bittersweet to see that time flies and now we closer to graduate, but put out our knowledge to work.

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