Clojurians Log v2

Hi, how much of JS do I have to know to get into Clojurescript?

@jgzolanes If you don't interact with JS, I would say "near to nothing".

I would even say even if you interact with JS as long as it stays at library level, near to nothing. You need to read about react vs reagent/re-frame though.

I'd say the opposite. You might not need to know the exact syntax of JS but you still need to learn a lot about the runtime itself. Understanding how the Browser handles JS and which limitations it has is important.

There's a lot of JavaScript syntax details I don't know, but I've learned a lot of DOM apis

Yeah I agree, knowing the runtime is very important. I often see people asking essential JS questions here.

Is there a reference? Like JS 101 for CLJS devs?

I'm not aware of any and don't think there's anything specific, just learn js ™️

Haha, I learn CLJS to avoid learning JS

I guess I need to dig into it finally

well maybe not JS itself, but runtime APIs, DOM, browser APIs etc

What are runtime APIs? Like js/Math?

web apis in general

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

Ah ok, yeah you need that for sure.

@jgzolanes I don't disagree w/ with what's been said so far but it depends on what you mean by "get into" - I think if you're focusing on learning then I think you can make it pretty far these days w/o doing too much interop. As you start building things less trivial with more requirements you'll soon find that knowing something about JavaScript is essential.