Learning Path: Next Level JavaScript

Upgrade your JavaScript skills to ES6 and beyond

Great JavaScript is more than just syntax or style guides. This Learning Path starts by leading you through advanced JavaScript concepts, swiftly moving on to showing you how you can use ES6 and functional programming right away in live projects and applications.

Ben Fhala

Ben Fhala discovered his passion for data visualization six years ago while he was working at Parsons in New York, in their data visualization department, PIIM. He is the owner of the online video training school, 02geek.com, and an Adobe ACP. He enjoys spending most of his time learning and teaching and has a love for visual programming and visualization in general. Ben has had the honor of developing applications for members of the US Congress, Prime Ministers, and Presidents around the world. He has built many interactive experiences for companies such as Target, AT&T, Crayola, Marriott, Neutrogena, and Nokia. He has technically directed many award-winning projects and has been part of teams that have won three Agency of the Year awards.

Mathieu Chauvinc

Mathieu Chauvinc is a Managing Director at Red Ape Solutions, where he aspires to keep the company at the bleeding edge of web technologies. On a daily basis, he leads the tech team of 15 and collaborates with them in building complex single page applications and neat hybrid mobile apps. He has been involved in web technologies for over a decade, from Django to Node.js and Go, SQL to NoSQL, Mootools to Angular 2, continuously trying to keep the right balance between the excitement of new frameworks and the stability of proven ones. He always has a special place in his heart for Python and Django.

He holds a Master’s in Engineering from the German University Karlsruhe and a Master’s in Engineering from the French ENSAM (Paris). Despite an engineering background, he has always had a passion for knowledge sharing, which has followed him until today, and he regularly conducts corporate or free training sessions on various IT topics in his country of residence, Malaysia.

He is also the author of several video courses, published by Packt, such as Learning JavaScript Promises and Introducing Ionic 2. He has recently enjoyed the chance of reviewing courses for Packt.

Christian Johansen

Christian Johansen is a passionate programmer working with Oslo-based consultancy Kodemaker. He's a man with an eclectic background, having worked with everything from Unix systems tuning and ops to various server-side applications and JavaScript heavy frontend development. Christian is the author of Test-Driven JavaScript Development, and he maintains several open-source projects, including the JavaScript test-framework Buster.JS and the popular mocking framework Sinon.JS. Functional programming is a long-standing interest, most recently practiced with Clojure and JavaScript.

Requires a working knowledge of JavaScript

Understand how to maintain code consistency by learning naming convention best practices

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the issues while targeting JavaScript version compatibility with different browsers

Lay the groundwork for creating libraries by loading scripts dynamically

Integrate Modernizr into your workflow to get rid of manual feature detection

Create and manipulate DOM elements using Sizzle

Explore the different design patterns and learn how to effectively use them with JavaScript

Make your library secure with the help of the advanced façade pattern

Add a time manager to your library using the singleton design pattern

Create, integrate, and test event dispatchers in JavaScript