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Navigating the JS landscape

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Navigating the JS landscape

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- [Instructor] When you look around for information about JavaScript and feel a bit overwhelmed by all the different things with the label JavaScript associated with them, you're not alone. There's Vanilla JavaScript and then there's ECMAScript and ES6 and ES2015 and ES2017 and ES2020 and TypeScript and CoffeeScript, and then there's React and Vue and Angular and Gulp and Babel and WebPack and Node.js. And somehow all of these things are related to or under the umbrella of JavaScript. And everyone is saying, "You should learn this first, no, this first, no, this first, no, that other thing first". The JavaScript landscape is evolving rapidly because JavaScript has become such an essential part of the web platform and all of these different things and names encapsulate a discrete aspect of the language itself or how it's implemented or how it's worked with or a tool or framework built on or used with JavaScript. So to make…

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