In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what the jargon you hear in JavaScript means.

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Show Notes

00:25 Welcome
01:06 Sponsor: Sentry
01:59 Sponsor: Freshbooks
02:27 What does that even mean?
02:55 Everything in JavaScript is an Object!
04:43 X is just Syntactic Sugar
09:00 Functions are first class citizens
10:04 Object Literals or Template Literals
11:12 Declarative vs Imperative

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Syntactic Sugar, Declarative and First Class Citizens? What does that even mean?

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