JS Study Group Topics

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React
Core Concepts Component Lifecycle Data flow Advantages & disadvantages ⋅
Design Patterns
Another potential longer-term series but we could discuss patterns like:Pub/Sub (observer pattern)SingletonsAdaptersMixinsFactoriesPromise… ⋅
API-first CMS overview
We could talk about Contentful, Primsic, DataCMS, etc - along with their strengths and weaknesses both individually and a group. ⋅
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Memory + Garbage Collection
Discuss how data is stored in memory both in javascript runtimes and other languages, as well as how garbage collection works and how these… ⋅
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Functional programming concepts 
"Pure" functionsImmutabilityReferential transparencyStateless/side effectsCompositionetc ⋅
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Typescript
Why typescript, introduction and tools ⋅
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Unit Testing
Goals, what problems it solves, approaches, patterns, and frameworks ⋅
GraphQL
What problems it solvesHow it compares to SQL or other query languagesWhere it's commonly used (e.g. react, content management systems, gra… ⋅
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Data structures overview and when to use them
Stuff from more traditional "computer science" curriculum that some of us may not have been exposed to yetBigOSets vs Arrays vs Vectors vs … ⋅
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Git
Theory (how it works and how it's different than other version control systems)WorkflowsAdvanced commandsetc ⋅
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Algorithms
Maybe this is more of a series, but I imagine we could talk through a variety of interesting algorithms. For example:Sorting (and various … ⋅
Webpack
Cover webpack (and maybe babel) and how they're used in various frameworks to bundle and transform assets. Also might make sense to have an… ⋅