Syntactic Sugar, Declarative and First Class Citizens? What does that even mean?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what the jargon you hear in JavaScript means. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:06 Sponsor: Sentry 01:59 Sponsor: Freshbooks 02:27 What does that even mean? 02:55 Everything in JavaScript is an Object! 04:43 X is just Syntactic Sugar 09:00 Functions are first class citizens 10:04 Object Literals or Template Literals 11:12 Declarative vs Imperative Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss! And Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be
0:32.0	describing some JavaScript things, some JavaScript saying, some jargon, some stuff
0:37.0	that you may have heard before and you're swoonering, what is that? What's that
0:41.0	thing? I've heard these words around here, but people are just tossing
0:44.0	them out like everybody knows what they mean. So JavaScript buzzwords
0:49.0	explained, what does that even mean? But before we get into that, we're
0:53.0	going to be talking about some buzz companies and by buzz, I mean, not ones
0:58.0	that are just fly by night here. These are incredible, awesome, amazing
1:02.0	companies doing awesome stuff. So one of which is century and the other one
1:06.0	is fresh books. Now, century is the perfect place to see all of your
1:10.0	errors and exceptions happening in your application. Track bugs and
1:15.0	performance across all your different services, whether that's your API or
1:20.0	UI or anything else. Century has you covered because their APIs
1:25.0	work with all the tools you know and love. Not only that, but they
1:29.0	allow you to create custom dashboards to get alerts, to get connections
1:33.0	to the tools like GitHub issues so that you can track and fix your bugs.
1:38.0	You can attach them to specific developers so that way they can get
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