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A software engineer reppin' Cleveland, Ohio.
For a long time I’ve avoided getting into any “serious” front-end development work… by which I mean, of course, JavaScript ( shudder ). I started hacking on HTML in my teens, but once I got into “real” programming, and especially once I started programming professionally and learned that “proper” development required things like a build script and Continuous Integration server, working in JavaScript always felt like going back to the wild west. No type safety, no unit tests, and endless browser incompatibil
Well things have come a long way in the last few years. Front-end frameworks like Backbone.js , Angular.js , and Ember.js have taken much of the pain out of writing client-side JavaScript. And JS is thriving on the server and desktop, mostly thanks to Node.js and the tooling built on top of it.