Lehman Notes

Setting up

1. Install Nodejs from official site or through a version manager like nvm or asdf
2. Create a github accountInstall and setup git
3. Install postgres. We have used Postgres.app for this talk.
4. Install Heroku Cli

Step by step tutorial

To run the app locally

Run:

> npm install

> npm run start

Slides from presentation

Future Reading

Other JS resources

• Node School - learn JS
• Body Parser

Other resources

• Gary Berhardt's Destroy All Software - great stuff here.
• Wat?!
• What color is your function?
• Exercism - learn any lang through git exercises
• The Daily Drip

Books

• the imposter's handbook
• practical oop in ruby
• programming elixir
• the pragmatic programmer

Courses

• Agile development using Rails/JS This is a slightly more advanced version of what we built. Totally worth it. You'll learn a lot about building and the process of agile software dev. And you'll get to use something other than Java. Don't take it as gospel but it's good to see things things:
  • Don't waste too much time on the Cucumber stuff - it's too much overhead and brutal to maintain in practice.
  • Understand predicting tasks w/ points, but understand prediction is hard. Points can be very evil

Databases

• Learn Relational DBs w/ Postgres Exercises

Functional Programming

• Mostly Adequate guide to FP
• OOP vs FP
• So you wanna be a functional programmer
• Declarative vs. Imperative programming

CSS

• Cascading S*** Show (history of CSS) by Jacob Thornton

Deployment / Continuous Integration

• Continuous Deployment by Tim Fitz

Docker

• Simple Docker Tutorial
• Kubernetes

Other Alt-JS

• Typescript - http://www.typescriptlang.org/
• Purescript - http://www.purescript.org/

React

• Thinking In React
• Fullstack React/Redux Tutorial (a bit outdated, but very good)