Technical Resources

Below is a list of tech and concepts that we expect our developers to know either before they start or be trained on after starting with us:

We do not expect our developers to be experts in all the areas below, just to have a one or more clues about how these items work.

The links below should provide a good introduction into an item, further in depth links can also be added. This is not the place to list project home pages or their documentation as these can be easily found via a search engine.

Languages

JavaScript

• Human Javascript
• Learning to Love Javascript

Ruby

Libraries

jQuery

Lodash

Moment

Underscore

Winston

Frameworks

Express

• Learning the basics of Express

HapiJS

React

• Luke's introduction presentation on React
• React cheatsheet
• React Intl - React Components for internationalization.

Patterns

Anti-patterns

• Software engineering anti-patterns

Callbacks

• Callback (computer programming)

Concerns

• Separation of concerns

Factory

• Factory (object-oriented programming)
• Factory - Essential JS Design Patterns - by Addy Osmani

Functional concepts

Inheritance

• Inheritance (object-oriented programming)

Mixins

• Mixin

MVC

• Model–view–controller
• MV* Patterns - Essential JS Design Patterns - by Addy Osmani

Promises

• HTML5 Rocks guide to promises
• Q promise library

Other tech

Git

• Try Git: Code School
• Git & GitHub Secrets - by Zach Holman
• Git For Humans
• Git from the Bottom Up
• Pro Git

LESS

SASS

Shell

SQL

Design

Principles

• UX/UI Design Principles
• Atomic Web Design
• Pattern Lab

Tools

• Bootstrap

Guidelines

• Holiday Extras Brand Guidelines
• Airparks Brand Guidelines
• BCP Brand Guidelines

Testing

Jasmine

Mocha

Chai

• sinon-chai
  • Cheatsheet

Selenium

• Nightwatch

Sinon

Infrastructure

Amazon AWS

Circle CI

• Deploying to S3

Heroku

Teamcity

Travis

Cheatsheet Resources

• http://ricostacruz.com/cheatsheets/