Syntactic Sugar, Declarative and First Class Citizens? What does that even mean?
Oct 10, 2022•15 min
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Episode description
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what the jargon you hear in JavaScript means.
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Show Notes- 00:25 Welcome
- 01:06 Sponsor: Sentry
- 01:59 Sponsor: Freshbooks
- 02:27 What does that even mean?
- 02:55 Everything in JavaScript is an Object!
- 04:43 X is just Syntactic Sugar
- 09:00 Functions are first class citizens
- 10:04 Object Literals or Template Literals
- 11:12 Declarative vs Imperative
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