From PHP to JavaScript with Node.js

From PHP to JavaScript with Node.js

I have been a PHP developer for more than 10 years and I recently moved to the JS full stack world. I was already familiar with JavaScript. I had my jQuery phase, then an Angular App and I finally started using React.

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I was not ready to start using modern JavaScript tools or framework. JavaScript in 2017 is a very different language, with modern features like:

So it took time to go through a lot of material to learn Javascript the right way. The Babeljs.io website gave me the best overview of what is programming in JavaScript nowadays.

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If your project uses a transpiler like Babel, new rules can be added to handle Flow types hints inside the JavaScript code like in PHP:

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We switched from Supervisord to an awesome contender written in JavaScript:

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When developing in PHP, I decided to use PhpStorm, a commercial IDE, as free ones felt slow and lacked plugins.

In JavaScript, there are more valid choices. Ours was to use VsCode, an editor made in JavaScript that is heavily supported by the community and Microsoft.

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