Ask HN: If you didn't know it, how would you learn Front-end today?
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I started to address this very issue, but I couldn't get anyone interested in the idea, so it got so far and no further. You might be interested in skimming what I did:
http://www.penzba.co.uk/cgi-bin/ModWebProg.py?FullStackDevel...
http://www.penzba.co.uk/cgi-bin/ModWebProg.py?FrontendWebFra...
It's a wiki, so people could actually record there the things they learn, and this could turn into a valuable resource, but at the moment there's not really that much there.
http://www.penzba.co.uk/cgi-bin/ModWebProg.py?FullStackDevel...
http://www.penzba.co.uk/cgi-bin/ModWebProg.py?FrontendWebFra...
It's a wiki, so people could actually record there the things they learn, and this could turn into a valuable resource, but at the moment there's not really that much there.
Elm is a language you may want to check out.
http://elm-lang.org
That questions asked about Java are a little simpler for me - "Take this book, this one and this. Here are the patterns, just remember these from this book. You'll learn the rest on the way." - few months later this person can be seen sitting as a Junior/Med in some software company. These languages do change, quite a lot, but Front-end is a bit more ... in a hurry - and learning from books does not work for it at all.
Even though Angular and React got most shares of the up-to-date production stack, Front-end environment is still not really settled. When I google "javascript tutorial", it takes only about 12 pages until I first hear about anything related to ES6. "Modules?" - "Not this time, mate. But we've got this cool quiz that you can finish and get a JavaScript certificate!" "When was your guide last updated?" - "1996, but javascript didn't change even a bit, trust us on that! Also, would you like to obtain a FREE JavaScript certificate?" "React, Angu..." - "Shhh, there, a certificate for your eager spirit!"
When I was learning JavaScript a bit of time ago, there was only jQuery. And RequireJS. And that was pretty much all you needed. Today, new frameworks appear daily. It is not an easy path for a newcomer, when they have to learn at least 2-3 of these frameworks to even get started. And there seems to be no single, intuitive and reliable source to learn the basics from.
tl;dr;
Do you know any quality online tutorial that provide actual introductory knowledge of the current Front-end stack, in a beginners'-friendly form? (Vanilla, React or Angular, common tools like Webpack, ESlint, transpilers, maybe a bit about handling asynchronous code)