Cody Lindley

This handbook is a resource for both seasoned professionals and newcomers in the field of front-end web development to learn and explore the practice of front-end development.

TOC
Overview of Field of Work
Areas of Focus
Learning / Education / Training
Foundational Aspects
Core Competencies
Other Competencies & Paradigms
Front-end Development Toolbox/Stack
Professional Career Preparations
Communities, Podcasts, & Email Newsletters

This is a curated roadmap to becoming a professional Front-end Developer that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and briefly discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it in 2020.

It is specifically written with the intention of being a professional resource for potential and currently practicing front-end developers to equip themselves with learning materials and… Show more

This is a curated roadmap to becoming a professional Front-end Developer that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and briefly discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it in 2020.

It is specifically written with the intention of being a professional resource for potential and currently practicing front-end developers to equip themselves with learning materials and development tools. Secondarily, it can be used by managers, CTOs, instructors, and head hunters to gain insights into the practice of front-end development.

The content of the handbook favors web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript) and those solutions that are directly built on top of these open technologies. The resources and tools referenced and discussed in the guide are either best in class or the most current offering to a problem.

The roadmap should not be considered a comprehensive outline of all resources available to a front-end developer. The value of the roadmap is tied up in a terse, focused, and timely curation of just enough categorical information so as not to overwhelm anyone on any one particular subject matter.

The intention is to release an update to the content yearly. Show less

This is a guide that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it.
It is specifically written with the intention of being a professional resource for potential and currently practicing front-end developers to equip themselves with learning materials and development tools. Secondarily, it can be used by managers, CTOs, instructors, and… Show more

This is a guide that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it.
It is specifically written with the intention of being a professional resource for potential and currently practicing front-end developers to equip themselves with learning materials and development tools. Secondarily, it can be used by managers, CTOs, instructors, and head hunters to gain insights into the practice of front-end development.
The content of the handbook favors web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript) and those solutions that are directly built on top of these open technologies. The materials referenced and discussed in the book are either best in class or the current offering to a problem.
The book should not be considered a comprehensive outline of all resources available to a front-end developer. The value of the book is tied up in a terse, focused, and timely curation of just enough categorical information so as not to overwhelm anyone on any one particular subject matter. Show less

Today, tools like Babel have made it commonplace to see ES2015, ES2016, ES2017, ES2018, and ES2019 language updates/proposals in babelified source code. These compounding language changes can make it difficult to learn something like React, Apollo GraphQL, or Webpack.

This book aims to alleviate this problem by providing a curated selection of the commonly used language updates, tersely explained, to lessen this indirection. Thus, after studying the material in this book grokking new… Show more

Today, tools like Babel have made it commonplace to see ES2015, ES2016, ES2017, ES2018, and ES2019 language updates/proposals in babelified source code. These compounding language changes can make it difficult to learn something like React, Apollo GraphQL, or Webpack.

This book aims to alleviate this problem by providing a curated selection of the commonly used language updates, tersely explained, to lessen this indirection. Thus, after studying the material in this book grokking new JavaScript code while learning JavaScript frameworks and tools, should be much more comfortable. Show less

Learn React in the terse cookbook style found with previous Enlightenment titles (i.e., jQuery Enlightenment, JavaScript Enlightenment, DOM Enlightenment)

With DOM Enlightenment, you’ll learn how to manipulate HTML more efficiently by scripting the Document Object Model (DOM) without a DOM library. Using code examples in cookbook style, author Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) walks you through modern DOM concepts to demonstrate how various node objects work.

Over the past decade, developers have buried the DOM under frameworks that simplify its use. This book brings these tools back into focus, using concepts and code native to modern… Show more

With DOM Enlightenment, you’ll learn how to manipulate HTML more efficiently by scripting the Document Object Model (DOM) without a DOM library. Using code examples in cookbook style, author Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) walks you through modern DOM concepts to demonstrate how various node objects work.

Over the past decade, developers have buried the DOM under frameworks that simplify its use. This book brings these tools back into focus, using concepts and code native to modern browsers. You’ll understand the role jQuery plays in DOM scripting, and learn how to use the DOM directly in applications for mobile devices and specific browsers that require low overhead.

Understand JavaScript node objects and their relationship to the DOM
Learn the properties and methods of document, element, text, and DocumentFragment objects
Delve into element node selecting, geometry, and inline styles
Add CSS style sheets to an HTML document and use CSSStyleRule objects
Set up DOM events by using different code patterns
Learn the author’s vision for dom.js, a jQuery-inspired DOM Library for modern browsers Show less

If you’re an advanced beginner or intermediate JavaScript developer, JavaScript Enlightenment will solidify your understanding of the language—especially if you use a JavaScript library. In this concise book, JavaScript expert Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) provides an accurate view of the language by examining its objects and supporting nuances.

Libraries and frameworks help you build web applications quickly and efficiently, but when things go wrong or performance becomes an issue… Show more

If you’re an advanced beginner or intermediate JavaScript developer, JavaScript Enlightenment will solidify your understanding of the language—especially if you use a JavaScript library. In this concise book, JavaScript expert Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) provides an accurate view of the language by examining its objects and supporting nuances.

Libraries and frameworks help you build web applications quickly and efficiently, but when things go wrong or performance becomes an issue, knowing how and why they work is critical. If you’re ready to go under the hood and get your hands dirty with JavaScript internals, this is your book.

Get a short and digestible summary of ECMA-262, Edition 3, backed by real code you can run instantly
Examine the creation of JavaScript objects
Learn complex values, primitive values, scope, and inheritance
Understand the importance of the head object
Work with string, number, and Boolean objects and values
Discover how to use the null value and the built-in math object
Get into the details—beyond Mozilla’s reference guide for JavaScript 1.5 Show less

jQuery Enlightenment was written to express, in short-order, the concepts essential to intermediate and advanced jQuery development. Its purpose is to instill in you, the reader, practices that jQuery developers take as common knowledge. Each chapter contains concepts essential to becoming a seasoned jQuery developer.

This book is intended for three types of readers. The first is someone who has read introductory books on jQuery and is looking for the next logical step. The second type… Show more

jQuery Enlightenment was written to express, in short-order, the concepts essential to intermediate and advanced jQuery development. Its purpose is to instill in you, the reader, practices that jQuery developers take as common knowledge. Each chapter contains concepts essential to becoming a seasoned jQuery developer.

This book is intended for three types of readers. The first is someone who has read introductory books on jQuery and is looking for the next logical step. The second type of reader is a JavaScript developer, already versed in another library, now trying to quickly learn jQuery. The third reader is myself, the author. I crafted this book to be used as my own personal reference point for jQuery concepts. This is exactly the type of book I wish every JavaScript library had available. Show less