Modern JavaScript Deep Dive — Day 1: Setting the Stage


Day 1 Recap
Today I officially started my Modern JavaScript Deep Dive — a focused week to sharpen our ES6+ skills by building a deployable project.
Learning:
Reviewed
let
/const
, arrow functions, destructuring, template literals.Watched Traversy Media’s ES6+ Crash Course.
Read first sections of JavaScript.info.
Project: Interactive Resume
Built initial HTML/CSS structure.
Added a basic JS click handler.
Set up GitHub repo with
main
(production) &dev
(development) branches.Linked repo to Vercel for automatic preview and production deploys.
Key Takeaway:
Setting up your workflow early makes development faster, cleaner, and more professional.
Tomorrow → DOM manipulation + adding basic animations.
Live Preview: Coming soon!
Repo: [GitHub]
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Chibuikem Lucas
Chibuikem Lucas
I'm a full-stack engineer with a passion for 3D animation, simply doing my best to maximize the technological advancements of our time by creating amazing applications and web solutions to solve present problems in our world today.