Intermediate JavaScript

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: MODERN SYNTAX, OPERATORS, AND DATA STRUCTURES

• Destructuring
• Spread
• Rest parameters
• Short circuiting
• Logical assignment operators
• Enhanced object literals
• Optional chaining
• Nullish coalescing
• Sets and Maps

Session 2: SCOPE

• What is scope?
• Types of scope
• Lexical scope
• The scope chain
• Closures
• IIFEs

Session 3: OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

• What is object-oriented programming?
• Object templates
• Constructor functions
• The this keyword (review)
• Object prototypes (briefly)
• Classes
• Fields, constructors, and methods
• Static members
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Composition
• Mutating arrays, e.g. push, splice etc.

Session 4: FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING

• Functions (review)
• What is functional programming?
• Pure functions
• Immutability
• Spread (again)
• Functions as first-class objects
• Higher-order functions
• Callbacks
• Transforming arrays, e.g. filter, map etc.

Session 5: ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAMMING

• What is asynchronous programming?
• The Event Loop
• Asynchronous callbacks
• setTimeout and setInterval
• Promises
• async and await
• Reactive programming and observables (briefly)
• Asynchronous programming and the fetching of data

Session 6: MODULES, MANAGED APPS, AND TOOLING

• What is a module?
• Exporting and importing module features
• Embedding a module in the HTML
• Default and named exports
• Aliases
• Module objects
• Modules, packages, libraries, and frameworks
• Categories of tools
• Package management
• Module bundling
• Transpilation
• TypeScript
• Creating a managed app

Session 7: TESTING

• The purpose of testing
• The types of testing
• Running tests
• Test tools
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• E2E testing
• Testing async code
• Using mocks