Just finished up a work project where I had to work with an internal library written in vanilla JS...and it was the biggest pain in the ass. Even with JSDocs, there was so many issues (and bugs) such as things being undefined, nested data structures that were hard to parse, vague params that slipped through the cracks and more. It slowed down my productivity by at least 50%.

Typescript spoils the hell out of us with how it's basically a very light version of a unit test, documenter, autocompleter, and linter all in one. I think anyone learning JS would have a much easier time if you start straight from TS, just with the basics of primitives and return typing. It'll make your life so much easier.

Thought it would be useful for people starting out on learning JavaScript to hear a little about my journey so far.

I work in sales full time (resigning tomorrow!), I got hooked on coding after doing some big projects on Google sheets.

I started on freecodecamp.org, the front end track is really amazing and all free!

I also joined the Microsoft developer collective and did a bunch of courses with them, joined my local Facebook developer Circle and went to local meet ups (I live in Berlin).

I got offers 2 jobs, one front end internship in a great team and a Junior Google App Script Engineer role. Both at big statt ups in Berlin.

So if you have any specific questions, happy to help, but really just wanted to say that if you want to change careers, you are in the right place, go to all the meetup you can, use all the free resources you can and it is possible.

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Aspiring dev here! I’ve been teaching myself to code for a while now.

This is the first full-stack application I have made. I used the MERN stack here.

Do you guys think this can be a good portfolio project? How can I further improve it? I come from a non-technical background and would like to transition into the IT world. Any devs from Spain here who can guide me?

Hi, I'm looking to learn javascript but I'm stuck on what resources to use. I already comfortable with C++, HTML /CSS and python. So far I've seen the book "Eloquent Javascript" recommended. Would this be a good source to learn javascript for someone who has some programming experience?