Been on Node and Mongo for 4 years now. Both have worked well for me.
JS has evolved a lot in the past few years, and with it came all the new shiny tools that left us confused.
I think a year was too short for the author. Sounds like they were chasing after every cool thing to make life easy.
Error handling is a pain yea, I've seen amateur folk try catch this and that, I think that lends itself to being terrible.
One of the things I appreciate the most about JS is JSON. Crafting tens of classes in Java irritates me. I find Python sometimes tricky also when dealing with structs VA lists.
I've always stuck to the basics when I was learning how to JavaScript with Node. I used only callbacks for 2 years until I understood what my code was doing. Granted, I'd have spaghetti at the end of complex async queries, but I understood what was going on. I moved to caolan::async and have been using async whenever necessary. I barely use promises as I got confused by the early adoption craze.
I learnt how to use Backbonejs, and a bit of Angular+React+Ember, but I found myself comfortable using vanilla JavaScript. Only thing I use is Underscore templates. I know I could benefit from shadow DOMs etc, but I'm content where I am.
I think a good way to learn is to take things at bite sized chunks. I've started using RxJS recently, and I'm loving it! I'll keep using JS as my primary tool, but I'm slowly moving to Kotlin.
JS has evolved a lot in the past few years, and with it came all the new shiny tools that left us confused.
I think a year was too short for the author. Sounds like they were chasing after every cool thing to make life easy.
Error handling is a pain yea, I've seen amateur folk try catch this and that, I think that lends itself to being terrible.
One of the things I appreciate the most about JS is JSON. Crafting tens of classes in Java irritates me. I find Python sometimes tricky also when dealing with structs VA lists.
I've always stuck to the basics when I was learning how to JavaScript with Node. I used only callbacks for 2 years until I understood what my code was doing. Granted, I'd have spaghetti at the end of complex async queries, but I understood what was going on. I moved to caolan::async and have been using async whenever necessary. I barely use promises as I got confused by the early adoption craze.
I learnt how to use Backbonejs, and a bit of Angular+React+Ember, but I found myself comfortable using vanilla JavaScript. Only thing I use is Underscore templates. I know I could benefit from shadow DOMs etc, but I'm content where I am.
I think a good way to learn is to take things at bite sized chunks. I've started using RxJS recently, and I'm loving it! I'll keep using JS as my primary tool, but I'm slowly moving to Kotlin.