JavaScript: Things to Know in 2014 June 24th, 2014

Here’s a list I’ve compiled from interviews and articles of core JavaScript knowledge for 2014…

• Event delegation and bubbling
• Prototypes and inheritance
• Functions are first-class objects
• Modular JavaScript
• Constructor-based approach vs. mixins
• How to control “this” through bind, apply, and call
• Async code and how to manage it through things like promises and queues
• Code testing process and tools
• Memory management
• CoffeeScript
• Recursion