In this episode the panel discusses various programming topics, and whether or not they are required knowledge for JavaScript programmers. This includes topics such as scopes and hoisting, closures, the event-loop, and the behavior of this. For each such topic, the panel discusses whether or not JavaScript devs are required to know and understand them in order to write better code, or pass job interviews, or to understand existing codebases. Alternatively, if these are topics that JavaScript developers don’t need to know, and maybe should even avoid.

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Panel

AJ ONeal
Charles Max Wood
Dan Shappir
Steve Edwards

Links

10 Interview Questions Every JavaScript Developer Should Know – AKA: The Keys to JavaScript Mastery
https://kentcdodds.com/blog/newspaper-code-structure
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Closures
Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit

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