There are a bunch of things in “modern” JS that irrationally scare me. I’m going to make a list of them so I can tackle them one by one. Earlier this morning I mentioned I wanted to learn ES6 techinques one-by-one, so here’s a good hitlist of things I should attack.

JS Syntax Stuff

• .map() I don’t know why this scares me. I also don’t know what it does.
• Arrow functions. There’s not a lot here, but it scares me.
• The require syntax for modules. Or is it import? I don’t know
• JSX. Okay that’s probably going to be a big scary one.
• The new keyword
• The canvas element
• .reduce() I think
• .filter() a little bit

Conceptual Things

• Functional programming
• Rotating an array (WHY??)
• Writing fizz buzz
• Other popular job interview whiteboard things, probably involving recursion

Technologies

• React
• Redux
• Vue
• threeJS (or whatever it’s called… it’s a render library)
• Browserify
• Webpack