Introduction

Hi, I’m Soma, and we’re going to learn to the infinite joys of modern Javascript development. Hooray!

Why all the excitement? Well, we’re going to need it, because the place we’re going is very dark, and very bad. I’m going to teach you enough to be dangerous, which is (I think) a useful ability in a dangerous world.

This guide is specifically an introduction “tooling,” the idea that you don’t just write JavaScript, you write something and then it runs through six thousand different tools that change your code into something else. Something better, hopefully/generally.