JavaScript was my first language because my initials are JS. After spending some time on programming.dev and seeing how many people bitch about JavaScript, I wrote a Python templating engine to convert Markdown into static HTML with CSS. I have like 10 lines of JavaScript that pre-populates a selector based on the URI’s query string, but that’s it. I got a perfect score on my Lighthouse report (and learns it gives you confetti when you do).
It took some creative problem solving, but I discovered that I didn’t need like 99% of the JavaScript or PHP that I was using. What I needed was mostly to get good at CSS.
JavaScript was my first language because my initials are JS. After spending some time on programming.dev and seeing how many people bitch about JavaScript, I wrote a Python templating engine to convert Markdown into static HTML with CSS. I have like 10 lines of JavaScript that pre-populates a selector based on the URI’s query string, but that’s it. I got a perfect score on my Lighthouse report (and learns it gives you confetti when you do).
It took some creative problem solving, but I discovered that I didn’t need like 99% of the JavaScript or PHP that I was using. What I needed was mostly to get good at CSS.