Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Ian Sinnott This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ian Sinnott. Since being on JavaScript Jabber for Episode 227, he has being writing a lot in JavaScript and has been taking a break from the meetups and podcast scene. He first got into programming when he took two CS courses in college that focused on Java graphical programming and SML. Once these courses were through, he stopped programming for a while and came back to it when he was creating an HTML email template. They talk about why he was excited with web development, how he got into JavaScript, what he is working on currently, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 227
• Ian intro
• How did you first get into programming?
• 2 CS courses in college
• Left programming after the classes
• Why did you decide to come back?
• Learning on PHP and WordPress
• What was it about web development that got you excited?
• Web development is high level and you can get quick wins
• What made you cross over into JavaScript?
• Really likes native apps
• Rise of the single-page web app
• Interactive apps
• What’s your flavor of choice?
• React is his go to
• MJS Episode 43 - Nick Disabato
• JSX, Angular, TypeScript, and Vue
• What are you working on now?
• Johnny-Five and Arduino
• Learning hardware allows you to attach an API to anything
• Is there anything that you have done that you are proud of?
• Rendering static sites in React
• Gatsby
• react-static-webpack-plugin and react-static-boilerplate
• RxJS and Redux-Observable
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 227
• JavaScript