Mastering Modern JavaScript
Today, JavaScript is ubiquitous. However, for the longest time, JavaScript for the longest time was deemed quirky and eccentric. Developers had to resort to convoluted programming practices and patterns to avoid the potholes presented by the language.
All that changed in 2015. The central committee that governs the development of the language
announced a slew of changes aiming to propel JavaScript into a new era. Features like let and const aim to deprecate the mischievous var, while fat-arrow functions aim to not only make JavaScript more succinct but also more functional. Developing domains and object hierarchies is also easier using the newly introduced classes. Finally features like promises and async/await make it easier to work with asynchronous operations.
However, there is a ton of legacy code out there that still uses older language constructs, and this code needs to be and should be refactored to use modern JavaScript constructs. This not only makes the code sustainable and evolvable but also clearer, more explicit, and lesser bugs.
In this exercise-driven workshop, you will use a test-driven approach to learn how to safely refactor your legacy JavaScript code using modern constructs.
By the end of this workshop, you will have built a solid foundation of modern JavaScript constructs. You will be ready to take on your next project or refactor an existing one with confidence.
About Raju Gandhi
Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.
He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.
He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).
Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.