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Panel


AJ O’Neal
Chris Ferdinandi
Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood


Joined by special guest: Mikeal Rogers

Episode Summary

This episode of JavaScript Jabber starts with Mikeal Rogers introducing himself and his work in brief. Charles clarifies that he wants to focus this show on some beginner content such as node.js basics, so Mikeal gives some historical background on the concept, elaborates on its modern usage and features and explains what “streams” are, for listeners who are starting to get into JavaScript. The panelists then discuss how languages like Go and Python compare to node.js in terms of growth and individual learning curves. Mikeal answers questions about alternate CLIs, package management, Pika, import maps and their effect on node.js, and on learning JavaScript in general. Chris, Charles and AJ also chip in with their experiences in teaching modern JS to new learners and its difficulty level in comparison to other frameworks. They wrap up the episode with picks.

Links


Mikeal on Twitter
Mikeal on GitHub


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Picks

Chris Ferdinandi:


Mozilla Firefox
Artifact Conference


Aimee Knight:


A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There
Programming: doing it more vs doing it better


Mikeal Rogers:


The Future of the Web – CascadiaJS 2018
Brave Browser


Charles Max Wood:


Podwrench

Special Guest: Mikeal Rogers.