
Learning the details of a company’s technology stack, style guide and engineering philosophy are all important, but you shouldn’t be expected to know them in advance, and in many cases doing so is impossible. Pre-existing means that these are things that somebody is expected to know before taking the job. I’m optimizing for “what specific pre-existing knowledge will make the most difference between success and failure for a new hire in a mid-level JavaScript role”.
#DECORATOR JAVASCRIPT YOU DONT KNOW JS PROFESSIONAL#
Thus I’ll exclude things like communication ability, experience with version control, professional conduct, or basic coding ability that are very important to success in a JavaScript development environment but are out of the scope of this question. I’m assuming the audience is a developer who has some level of professional programming experience and some existing JavaScript experience, and that they are primarily interested in “code skill” answers. I’m making the following assumptions about the question So here’s my take on answering the question. Can you contribute productively as a mid-level JavaScript developer without knowing anything about Prettier, Typescript or React? Sure! Can you contribute productively if you’re writing and testing your JavaScript using ? Definitely. I think this is a great question if you take it seriously, because when you think about it critically, it exposes all of the things JavaScript don’t really need to know. From “What 10 Things Should a Serious Javascript Developer Know Right Now?” Narrow it down to your ten for me, or for you. The objective is to do good work in a good place. I’m learning outside of work requirements at the moment, but there is so much to learn out there. Personally, I’m in a role where what I know is adequate, but I want to be somewhere better somewhere that has some flippin standards.


I’m inviting pure opinion here, but what’s your list of ten things that everyone looking for a good javascript role should know and understand. There’s been an interesting Reddit thread circling my corner of the internet for the last week or so.
