Does anyone know any courses for web javascript? like youtube courses and for web javascript, i mean writing js in script tags, using document and window, and intergrating backend with frontend no nodejs or stuff like that. Just javascript, being used in a script tag, being used to dynamically manipulate elements, the DOM, and such. Most tutorials I found was just, explaining how js works, i know how it works, I want to know how to do the communication between front-end and back-end.
[EDIT] I found one person, and while I would like it if you could tell me more courses, i will link his videos, Traversy Media did some videos on Javascript DOM, which basically does what I asked for, i made a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDmZtFPxsV268gyN8XBTgXiVVRXtIRf2o
if for whatever reason the playlist goes down, just search for him. But I would like to hear about alternatives.
MDN is great, especially for finding current best practice, but I’ve always found their material much more useful for reference once I’m already familiar with the general usage of whatever I’m trying to use. I often find it difficult to get to grips with something new just with MDN.
I usually go read W3Schools first. It’s mostly a bit out of date, but not so much that it’s useless, and I find the tutorials much easier to digest. Once I’m comfortable with the basics, I switch to MDN to get up to speed.
And OP, it sounds like you’re already wary of this, but don’t let yourself be tricked into using a hodge-podge of libraries for every little thing. A lot of JS programmers will tell you that you “need” some library or other to provide a function that you can often replicate with just two or three lines of raw JS, if you know what you’re doing.
I think the JS library addiction stems from the bad old days of browser incompatibility, when almost everything had to be wrapped in layers of complex compatibility shims.