Javascript Library to display json entities

nullObjects

Hey,

Looking to learn javascript and I have an idea that would basically be just to put a front end on an api as a learning exercise.

Just wondering if you had any javascript libraries or frameworks you would suggest looking into?

Thanks

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058230371/javascript-library-to-display-json-entities

Jquery is the most widely used and easy to learn, lots of plugins if not already included in the core

TrueDub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118550186#Comment_118550186

Some of this may be true, but JQuery is not a modern Javascript library, and not a good approach to learn.

@nullObjects , to learn the basics of Javascript, don't bother with a framework or library, to start with. Start by writing a plain script to call your API using fetch, and simply printing it to the console.

Then start investigating the Javascript way of doing things for UI, and pick one of the many UI frameworks - I'd suggest React, but Angular or Vue would work just as well. Start really small, and work up to bigger things.

nullObjects

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118552130#Comment_118552130

Cheers for that. I thought it would be more trivial to present the Json in the UI layer

Think what you said about fetching the data and printing it is probably the way to go.

Yep, React would be the longer term goal, thanks again

nullObjects

Cheers for the help

In case it helps anyone else I bought the Javascript Cookbook from O'Reilly press and found it useful.

Just learned the grammar / syntax from google and then different snippets from the book to muck about with side projects

Been having fun with the chrome extensions API: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/

Talisman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118984823#Comment_118984823

Be sure to check out patterns.dev, it will help you to utilize established patterns in your JS development.

https://www.patterns.dev/

Also check out Kyle Simpson's You Don't Know JS series of books. He's currently writing the second edition but the workings of JS as described in the first edition are still valid today.

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

nullObjects

Thanks a lot for those