A unique learning opportunity…​

I’ve been creating and tuning the jsComplete platform for the past couple of YEARS using React.js and Node.js and a bit of GraphQL.

I wasn’t working full time on this but it sure feels so. Creating a featured front-end application that’s scalable and usable across all browsers, devices, and environments is a very challenging task. It basically "takes a village" but I have done it mostly solo and learned a ton in the process. I’ve made both good and bad decisions, had to deal with many consequences, and in a few cases needed to do major rewrites.

At jsComplete, we’re always experimenting with new ways to practically teach full-stack JavaScript. Some people can learn through reading and watching but others need more. One new idea we’d like to try is to do a series of online training sessions to go through the jsComplete codebase itself and explain why things are done the way they are. This would be a unique learning opportunity where participants get to see, criticize, and understand both good and bad parts of a codebase for a real application.

In these sessions, I will go over each significant line in the codebase and explain it in its context. I will also go over the database design and how the API is working with it. Participants will learn a lot about securing and optimizing an API and about running the codebase in production and what that entails. I will also go over the "history" of the codebase and what was done to remedy bad decisions. These training sessions will all be interactive where participants can ask questions and I have a feeling they will have lots of them. Participants would also get a copy of the entire jsComplete codebase (which they can use for non-commercial purposes).

I’d probably need to limit this to 10-12 participants and it’ll be around 15 hours split over 5 online sessions (in January 2020).

Would you be interested in something like this?

If so, leave me your email address below and I’ll be in touch.